plain and simple

plain and simple

Essentially or fundamentally so, without exaggeration or elaboration. If you are caught cheating on an exam or assignment, you will fail the entire class, plain and simple. No matter how much they claim it will help the average worker, this is a tax break for the wealthy, plain and simple.
See also: and, plain, simple
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • pure and simple
  • pay the price
  • pay the price, to
  • pay the price/penalty
  • penalty
  • pay the penalty
  • crib note
  • crib sheet
  • cheat sheet
  • let it be on (one's) head
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Doing dairy right
Also available in an audiobook edition on CD (0963856073, $24.95), Joy Of Leadership: The Only Secret To Your Success As A New Leader is a plain and simple guidebook for managers.
Joy of Leadership
A TD has called for plain and simple English to be used on all official Government forms to make them more "user friendly".
TD APPEALS FOR PLAIN ENGLISH
"This country was founded on freedom of religion and religious diversity." He also described the FRC's comments as "bigotry, plain and simple."
Invocation INTOLERANCE
What the good Father is saying is plain and simple. We don't need to import a role model with sewer morals to pat our kids on the head or shake hands with impressionable teenagers.
Barbara ARGUMENT: Knocked out by pointless Tyson fight
"Plain and Simple: Bunyan and Style." In John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus, Tercentenary Essays, ed.
The politics of portraiture: Oliver Cromwell and the plain style
Matthew Griffiths, of Habitat, has some plain and simple tips to spruce up your garden table.
Home instinct; SPRING INTO ACTION
Barrax's diction is plain and simple, yet there are many details in these lines, as well as throughout Leaning Against the Sun.
Leaning Against the Sun
From the savory taste of a barbeque sandwich, to learning that a friend from past years had been named in a lawsuit over the death of a young woman, to confronting the question of whether he should attend a reunion at his own school, Cowser's trip through memory lane comes alive with emotion, reflection, and plain and simple honesty.
Scorekeeping
The Plain And Simple Guide To Music Publishing: What You Need To Know About Protecting, And Profiting From, Music Copyrights narrows the focus to music publishing and comes from an author who has administered publishing rights for hundreds of artists and companies, earning them big-ticket money in the process.
The Plain And Simple Guide To Music Publishing