我希望你干脆把话挑明。

I wish that you would put your CARDS on the table.

让我把这件事无情地挑明说吧。

Let me be brutally frank about this.

每个办公室都有在人力资源手册中找不到的潜规则，一定要在新员工上班的头几天里，把这些微妙的东西向他们挑明。

Every office has rules you won't find in the HR manual.