Meaning: family struthionidae

n.
tall terrestrial birds: ostriches

truth Idiom, Proverb

a grain of truth

a bit of truth, take it with a grain... There's not a grain of truth in what Brian says. It's all untrue.

gospel truth

(See the gospel truth)

moment of truth

(See the moment of truth)

no truth to it

lacking any reliable information, a pack of lies When Gary tells you about his hiking adventures, don't believe a word. There's no truth to it.

stretch the truth

add to a true story, include lies with the truth Al was stretching the truth. He said the waves were 60 feet high.

the gospel truth

the real truth, as true as the gospel I opened the package to count the cookies - that's the gospel truth!

the moment of truth

the time when you receive a very important message The moment of truth has arrived. My grades are in this envelope.

in truth

in fact；in reality；actually实际上；实事上
In truth， he cannot teach you anything on French．事实上，他不能教你法语。
This is in truth an ideal site for a power plant．这里的确是建设发电厂的理想场所。
This is in truth very poorly made．说实在的，这个东西做得太差劲了。

truth will out

Idiom(s): truth will out

Theme: TRUTH

eventually, the truth will become known; truth tends to become known, even when it is being concealed.
• The truth will out! Someday my name will be cleared.
• We just found out about corruption in the mayor's office. Like they say, "The truth will out."

The truth is in the wine.

People speak more freely under the influence of alcohol.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Events in real life are sometimes stranger than in fiction.

Economical with the truth

(UK) If someone, especially a politician, is economical with the truth, they leave out information in order to create a false picture of a situation, without actually lying.

Honest truth

If someone claims that something is the honest truth, they wish to sound extra-sincere about something.

home truth

an uncomfortable fact: "She's going to have to sit down and hear some home truths."

children and fools speak the truth|child|children|

Children and fools say things without thinking; they say what they think or know when grown-ups might not think it was polite or wise to do so.

A proverb. "Uncle Willie is too fat," said little Agnes. "Children and fools speak the truth," said her father.

naked truth

naked truth
Plain unadorned facts, without concealment or embellishment. For example, What I've told you is the naked truth. This expression supposedly alludes to a fable in which Truth and Falsehood went bathing, Falsehood then dressed in Truth's clothes, and Truth, refusing to take another's clothes, went naked. [Late 1500s]

truth

truth
In addition to the idioms beginning with truth, also see gospel truth; home truth; moment of truth; naked truth; unvarnished truth.
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- truth is stranger than fiction
- truth will out

truth is stranger than fiction

truth is stranger than fiction
Real life can be more remarkable than invented tales, as in In our two-month trip around the world we ran into long-lost relatives on three separate occasions, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. This expression may have been invented by Byron, who used it in Don Juan (1833).

unvarnished truth

unvarnished truth
The plain facts without embellishment, as in Let's just have the unvarnished truth about the sale. This idiom was first recorded in 1883, although unvarnished had been used to describe a direct statement since Shakespeare's time.

More Idioms/Phrases

unknown quantity unlikely unseen unstuck until untimely unto unturned unvarnished truth unwashed unwritten law up up a creek up and at 'em