leave nothing to the imagination

leave nothing to the imagination

1. Of clothing, to hide or cover very little (of the body) or be very revealing. I was quite embarrassed when John showed up for our date wearing ill-fitting jeans that left nothing to the imagination.
2. To present (something) in a very stark or obvious manner. The film is relentlessly blunt with its anti-religious message, leaving nothing to the imagination from beginning to end.
See also: imagination, leave, nothing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • leave little to the imagination
  • somebody wouldn't be seen/caught dead...
  • wouldn't be caught dead (doing something)
  • caught dead, wouldn't be
  • a hissy
  • conniption fit
  • conniption
  • a hissy fit
  • mom jeans
  • screwy
References in periodicals archive
TRANSPARENT BAGS IF the primary purpose of your handbag is to haul around all manner of junk, look away now: The see-through bags on show at Versace, Mary Katrantzou and Brandon Maxwell leave nothing to the imagination, so you're going to need to do some serious decluttering if you want to carry one.
The voyeuristic intimacy heightens in explicit, though dramatically necessary, sex scenes, which leave nothing to the imagination.
Her antigun/anti-industry actions leave nothing to the imagination.
By creating visual experiences that "wow" viewers, the company helps businesses sell their ideas in the most immersive way possible, with designs that leave nothing to the imagination, Zebra said.
Bosses wanted her to leave nothing to the imagination in an X-rated shoot at a top Los Angeles location, the Daily Star reported.
Instead, they discover a series of comedy sketches starring the above A and B-listers which leave nothing to the imagination.
Not to mention the fact that they leave nothing to the imagination.
Chanting slogans that are witty in wordplay yet leave nothing to the imagination. They are back, and it does not look they will be going anywhere soon.
And short skirts that leave nothing to the imagination are fine as long as shorts are worn underneath because "it's not provocative, it's just nice".
THE new cinema screen replacing Birmingham's IMAX attraction will leave nothing to the imagination when it opens later this month.
In photos that leave nothing to the imagination, she's raised two fingers to a world where beauty is qualified by age.
A meticulous study of female repression, the film is achingly slow paced, punctuated with graphic sex scenes that leave nothing to the imagination.
Whereas the 2000 martial arts epic boasted breathlessly paced action sequences, this new work - a meticulous study of female repression - is achingly slow paced, punctuated with graphic sex scenes that leave nothing to the imagination.
But I was wondering if you could leave out the bad language and the women in bikinis that leave nothing to the imagination. I was very disappointed when I pulled the latest issue out of the mailbox.
The highly anticipated follow-up to his her-alded 2001 debut, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Sundance double award winner about a German transsexual who wants to be an American rock star, Shortbus arrives in theaters just a month after the fifth anniversary of 9/11 with an unabashedly sex-positive message--and eyebrow-raising sex scenes that leave nothing to the imagination. (The tour de force opening montage that features a man and woman having sex in more positions than most straight people achieve in a lifetime, not to mention a gay guy who tries to pleasure himself orally, is a doozy!) The point?