Never comes out and just says anything in clear words.

Then you have to understand something that's never said in so many words.

Though none of them had said it in so many words, they really didn't have a single lead.

She said it, not in so many words but they got the message.

But she didn't know how to say it in words, even to herself.

Easy to say, in other words, but hard to do.

To all of them he had said, in various words and ways: Give me time.

That she did not say it in words said even more.

He'll understand that, though I didn't say it in so many words.

Can not say in ringing words what is wrong here.