home truth

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noun
  1. an indisputable fact or basic truth, especially one whose accuracy may cause discomfort or embarrassment.

Origin of home truth

1
First recorded in 1705–15

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How to use home truth in a sentence

  • 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

home truth

noun
  1. (often plural) an unpleasant fact told to a person about himself

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Other Idioms and Phrases with home truth

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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