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naked truth

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Plain unadorned facts, without concealment or embellishment. For example, What I've told you is the naked truth. This expression supposedly alludes to a fable in which Truth and Falsehood went bathing, Falsehood then dressed in Truth's clothes, and Truth, refusing to take another's clothes, went naked. [Late 1500s]

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naked truth

“We seek justice and this will be revealed in all its naked truth, not through some ordinary steps but in all its naked truth,” Erdogan said on Sunday, according to the semiofficial Anadolu news agency.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2018

Now, with the AFC and NFC championship games on tap, along with four Super Bowl possibilities, we will have to wait until late Sunday afternoon for the naked truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2016

“It’s the surprise on the audience’s ear and the honest naked truth of those moments that makes it both horrific and, in a strange sort of way, immersive.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2014

I achieved my dream, which confronted me with a naked truth: The dream has been won, and it is not enough.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2013

Success of Aphorisms.—The inexperienced, when an aphorism at once illuminates their minds with its naked truth, always think that it is old and well known.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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