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level with en · VERB
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(idiomatic, informal) To be frank or particularly honest and clear with someone.
Why am I here? I'll level with you. For the last few years the Congress has been appropriating about 325 million for the REA program and it hasn't been enough.
1972, Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, quoting Gerald F. Dibble, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrification of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, First Session on The Problems Facing Rural Electric Cooperatives in Providing Adequate Power at Reasonable Rates for Rural America, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 363:Let me level with you, man, as someone guilty of the game / I took the help, I took the cash, I would've taken your last name
2020, Penelope Scott, “Rät” (track 7), in Public Void:Before God and all of you, I give you my word: I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution. I’ll defend our democracy.
2021 January, Joe Biden, 30:06 from the start, in The Inauguration of the 46th President of the United States (web video), Washington D.C.: The White House, via YouTube:
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