when you get right down to it
when you get right down to it
When you speak about or consider something plainly, with all facts, details, or aspects taken into account. When you get right down to it, voters care more about issues that affect them directly than things that affect others or will have an impact on them in the future. I'm sure they have their fancy arguments and leaps of logic ready, but when you get right down to it, what they did is theft, plain and simple.
See also: down, get, right
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- when it comes right down to it
- speak (one's) mind
- speak mind
- speak one's mind
- speak your mind
- see (something) through rose-colored glasses
- see through rose-colored glasses
- see (something) through rose-coloured spectacles
- put (something) plainly
- put plainly