home truth
an indisputable fact or basic truth, especially one whose accuracy may cause discomfort or embarrassment.
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How to use home truth in a sentence
I’ve learned a lot of blistering home truths about myself along the way.
A brotherly home-truth followed: "Nobody asked you, sir, she said!"
The Daisy Chain | Charlotte YongeShe took my hand in hers as if she wanted to compensate for this home-truth by her light touch upon it.
The Magic Skin | Honore de BalzacWere I senior of the school, and Arthur not my brother, Mr. Mark should hear a little home truth about sneaks.
The Channings | Mrs. Henry WoodThat was the kind of home truth which the public appreciated and even paid their money to hear.
Still, out of the mouth of the simple one may sometimes hear a home truth.
The Master of the Shell | Talbot Baines Reed
British Dictionary definitions for home truth
(often plural) an unpleasant fact told to a person about himself
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Other Idioms and Phrases with home truth
A key or basic truth, especially one that is discomforting to acknowledge. For example, It's time you told a few home truths here, such as where your campaign finances actually came from. This expression uses home in the sense of “the very heart of a matter.” [c. 1700]
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