terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
V. call a spade 'a spade'; plunge in medias res; come to the point.
Adj. plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely,
homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-
fact, natural, prosaic.
dry, unvaried, monotonous &c 575.
Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common
parlance; point-blank.