tell the truth
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tell the truth
verb tells the truth · telling the truth · told the truth
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tell, truth. That year a U.S. appeals court found the program Snowden had exposed was unlawful and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
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Used to positively assert the frank honesty of an associated statement of set of statements; equivalent to "to tell the truth".
Then it sneezed. Considering what it was smelling, that was no surprise. Tell the truth, I'd gotten so used to the jof jof dung that I didn't notice it anymore.
Similar: frankly, honestly, tell you the truth
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verb to tell the truth
| Français | dire la vérité |
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| العربية | صَدَقَ ṣadaqa |
phrase asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement
| Español | decir la verdad |
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| 中文 | 老實說 /老实说 lǎoshíshuō |
| Français | pour être honnête |
| Русский | че́стно говоря́ čéstno govorjá |
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title = {tell the truth},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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