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truth to tell en · INTJ

Meanings

1. (qualifier:set phrase) Actually; frankly; as a matter of fact.
   • Truth to tell, the supper had been waiting a most unreasonable time. 1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 51, in Oliver Twist:
   • I am a huge fan [of farting]. Well, truth to tell I am more than a simple fan for having studied the act of breaking wind for most of my life I consider myself to be far more than a simple aficionado[…] 2012, Dougie Brimson, Art of Fart, →ISBN:
   • Haggerty had his trouble for nothing. There was no clue whatever in Lord Monckton's suite. . . . Truth to tell, Haggerty had not expected to find anything. 1915, Harold MacGrath, chapter 13, in The Voice In The Fog:
   • In 1999 the American bishops mandated that if a college wanted to call itself Catholic, its theologians needed a bishop's good-housekeeping seal. And yet, truth to tell, the majority of Catholic schools hadn't really toed the line. 2008 April 17, David Van Biema, “The Pope on Academic Freedom”, in Time, retrieved 07 Jul 2015:

Synonyms

if truth be told · truth be told