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tell the truth en · VERB
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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.
2022 September 26, “Putin grants Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Snowden”, in Mark Trevelyan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022, Europe:
Forms
Translations (5)
pl powiedzieć prawdę (to tell the truth) · hu igazat mond (to tell the truth) · pl mówić prawdę (to tell the truth) · fr dire la vérité (to tell the truth) · ar صَدَقَ (to tell the truth)
tell the truth en · X
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(idiomatic, informal) 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.
1991, Mike Sirota, Bicycling Through Space and Time:
Relateds
tell you the truth · tell the truth and shame the devil
Synonyms
frankly (asserting frank honesty of statement) · honestly (asserting frank honesty of statement) · tell you the truth (asserting frank honesty of statement)
Translations (12)
sv ärligt talat (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · es decir la verdad (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · fi totta puhuen (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · pl szczerze mówiąc (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · hu az az igazság, hogy (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · cmn 老實說 /老实说 (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · fr pour être honnête (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · hu igazság szerint (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · hu az igazat megvallva (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · grc ἀληθεύω (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · ru че́стно говоря́ (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement) · hu őszintén szólva (asserting the frank honesty of an associated statement)