honest to God

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Also, honest to goodness or Pete; honest Injun. Truly, really, as in Honest to God, I didn't know it was yours, or Honest to goodness, we had exactly the same experience, or I promise I'll finish in time, honest to Pete, or Honest Injun, I didn't take your wallet. These colloquial assertions date from about 1900, except for honest Injun, dating from the late 1800s and today considered offensive.

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How to use honest to God in a sentence

Well, they had a free ride for a good long while before there was an honest-to-God response.
Hillary’s Outside Enforcers Are Led by a Former Foe|David Freedlander|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was true honest to-god Tea Party at the height of the movement.
Michael Grimm’s Unhappily Ever After|David Freedlander|April 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Caleb makes clear that those plaguing him are honest-to-god metaphysical beings and not traumatic figments.
Possessed by PTSD, A Veteran Uses Exorcisms to Cast Out His Demons|Brian Van Reet|February 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You'd think they'd want to know how to talk to people in a reg'lar honest-to-God language—but no, seein' seemin'ly not a-tall.
The Glory of The Coming|Irvin S. Cobb

And I came to a pool—a wonderful honest-to-God pool—with the moon shining right into the middle of it.
A Parody Outline of History|Donald Ogden Stewart
I want you to tell me the truth—the honest-to-God, cross-your-heart truth, Lem—about that money.
In Pawn|Ellis Parker Butler
Nothing but an honest-to-God, genuine, Joshua-stopping-the-sun type of miracle could have saved the opposition.
Hail to the Chief|Gordon Randall Garrett
Candron wished he were an honest-to-God telepath, so he could be absolutely sure.
What The Left Hand Was Doing|Gordon Randall Garrett