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them's the facts en · X

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  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) Those are the facts, that's the truth, that's how it is.
    • ‘Them’s the facts!’ said Brown, taking little trouble to hide his contempt for anyone so stupid as not to understand. ‘The orficers were killed. Couldn’t see it with me own glims ’cos I couldn’t be everywhere at once. But they was dead all right.’ 1965, Dudley Pope, Ramage, a Novel, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →OCLC:
    • The boy was left with Bob Yancy mainly because nobody else would take him. Them's the facts. Now go on! 1911, Vaughan Kester, “Law at Balaam's Cross-roads”, in The Prodigal Judge, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 284963; republished Fairfield, Ind.: 1st World Library Literary Society, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4218-1813-9, page 44
    • I know you're worn out. I am too. It's too damn hot and I've forgotten what fresh water tastes like. Them's the facts. But let's just make it easy on ourselves and get this thing done and then we'll all get on back to the beach and off to the islands of nooky-nooky. 2007, Homer Hickam, The Far Reaches: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 83: