The phrase "a plain speaking" is not correct in standard English; it should be "plain speaking" or "a plain speaker." You can use it to describe someone who communicates in a straightforward and clear manner without using complicated language or jargon.
Example: "Her plain speaking style made it easy for everyone to understand the complex issues at hand."
Alternatives: "straightforward communication" or "clear expression."
Nigel Farage's image as a plain speaking-politician suffered a severe blow today, when he became so rattled on live radio that his chief spin doctor intervened to try to bring the interview to a halt.
When a plain-speaking judge rebuked this weasel, I felt like cheering.
A plain-speaking, former middle school principal, Mr. Toper appears to thrive on doing four things at once.
This made him a genuine Blairite, but a plain-speaking, practical one, less given than his master to abstract rhetorical flourishes.
If democracy plants itself in Iraq and spreads throughout the Middle East, Bush will be remembered as a plain-speaking visionary.
His replacement, Edmundo Pérez Yoma, is a plain-speaking and experienced Christian Democrat who as defence minister in the 1990s oversaw the departure as army commander of General Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator.
They posited a plain-speaking friendship between the advertisers and the young, a friendship that was entirely fictional but seemed really cool, and the way to get in on it was to purchase the product being advertised.
Mr. Jackson, who is now consulting for an agency, Sarkissian Mason, suggested that G. M. sponsor a plain-speaking campaign like Saturn's, promoting the corporate brand along with the divisional brands.
Filled with humour and almost real-time practical advice about the weekly price movements of supermarket food, it is a plain-speaking, practical austerity cookery guide – quite literally how to feed yourself and your toddler on £10 a week, in ways that are healthy, tasty and, importantly (to relieve the tedium of baked beans), varied.
