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Tell the truth

phrase, verb, slang

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Phrase
  1. 1
    Used to positively assert the frank honesty of an associated statement of set of statements; equivalent to "to tell the truth". idiomatic, informal

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    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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