make no bones about

1. 1.

   acknowledge freely and openly

   “He makes no bones about the fact that he is gay”

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Questions about make no bones about

What does make no bones about mean?

make no bones about means "acknowledge freely and openly".

Is make no bones about a common word?

make no bones about is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.