A: Why are you against appointing Lily as the leader of our discussion group?

    B: I make no bones about it. Lily is a top student excelling in every subject, but she is not a good speaker.

    Note: This idiom is to “state a fact so there are no doubts or objections.” In 15th-century England, if someone wanted to express their dissatisfaction with something, they “found bones in it.” This is a reference to the unwelcome discovery of bones in soup. If you found “no bones” in your meal you were able to swallow it without any difficulty or objection. “Making bones” is usually expressed in the negative. The idiom is roughly the same as “to be frank, no doubt.”