ord och inga visor
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Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ord (“words”) + och (“and”) + inga (“no”) + visor (“songs”)
Noun
[edit]- (idiomatic) blunt, sharp words
- Det var ord och inga visor när den avgående styrelseledamoten berättade vad han tyckte om sina tidigare kollegor
- It was words and no songs when the resigning board member told [his former colleagues, journalists, or the like – a plain "told" is idiomatic-sounding in Swedish] what he thought of his former colleagues