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noun

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

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Origin of home truth

First recorded in 1705–15

Words nearby home truth

home study, homestyle, “Home, Sweet Home”, home teacher, hometown, home truth, home unit, home video, homeward, homeware, Homewood

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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.
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That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
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So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.
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The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
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Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
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Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
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Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
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It was with a feeling of relief on both sides that the arrival of Mr. Haggard, of the Home Office, was announced.
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We are apt to think of these little ones as doing right only when under compulsion: but this is far from the truth.
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In the entrance hall of the Savoy, where large and lonely porters were dozing, he learnt that she was at home.
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British Dictionary definitions for home truth

home truth

noun

(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]

home truth

Origin of home truth

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