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This is an expression that you normally use when you wish to speak your mind and you are not really worried about how the others around you will react. It is a polite way of saying 'Excuse me for being blunt' but this is what I think.
Here are a few examples:-
--Your dissertation, not to put too fine a point on it, should be thrown into the dustbin.
--Our college team’s performance, not to put too fine a point on it, was terrible.
--Rachel: Not to put too fine a point on it, Mary, but you're still acting a little rude to Tom.
--Mary: I'm sorry, but that's the way I feel.
--John: I think, not to put too fine a point on it, you ought to do exactly as you are told.
--Andy: And I think you ought to mind your own business.
Here are a few examples:-
--Your dissertation, not to put too fine a point on it, should be thrown into the dustbin.
--Our college team’s performance, not to put too fine a point on it, was terrible.
--Rachel: Not to put too fine a point on it, Mary, but you're still acting a little rude to Tom.
--Mary: I'm sorry, but that's the way I feel.
--John: I think, not to put too fine a point on it, you ought to do exactly as you are told.
--Andy: And I think you ought to mind your own business.
