But this was a brutally honest fight by two men who bring out the best and worst in each other.
Let's take a brutally honest look at our current position.
But watch out - the car can be brutally honest.
It just might be that he is being brutally honest.
He was also known for giving brutally honest assessments of his own team's effort.
But he was, at least with himself, a brutally honest man.
Parents, she said, need to be "brutally honest about their family life."
But, to be brutally honest, that's what I was for the best part of a year.
Today, on this issue, we have to be brutally honest.
To be brutally honest, he didn't see it turning out any other way.