How to say "point-blank" in Japanese

• 単刀直入たんとうちょくにゅうCommon
  na-adjective, no-adjectiveCovers the figurative sense: speaking or asking point-blank, plunging straight into the subject without preliminaries. A four-character idiom with a bold, forthright nuance, typical of someone who opens with the key question or demand.
  もっと単刀直入たんとうちょくにゅうに言いってくれないかな。隔靴掻痒かっかそうようの感かんなきにしもあらずだよ。↗

  You don't have to leave me hanging like this. Why don't you just come out and tell it to me straight?
• 端的たんてきCommon
  na-adjectiveAlso the figurative sense: frank and direct, stressing plainness and conciseness. It describes a remark or way of putting things as blunt and to the point, highlighting the plain wording rather than boldness.
  端的たんてきに言いって、彼かれは首くびになったのだ。↗

  To make a long story short, he was fired.

Both words render only the figurative sense of 'point-blank'—blunt, no-evasion speech, never the literal 'at point-blank range'; choose 単刀直入 for boldly going straight to the point, 端的 for a plain, concise way of putting it.

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• 単刀直入たんとうちょくにゅうstraight to the point
• 端的たんてきfrank
• にべもないcurt