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naked truth

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  1. 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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But the naked truth is this: There is no elegant way to lose a war.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021

The Harding/ Kerrigan incident exposed and exemplified the naked truth about the Olympics and our culture.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

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

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

Ordinarily he gave one the impression that he was gleefully fabricating; now, of a 278 sudden, the listener was convinced that he was hearing the naked truth.

From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Standish, Burt L.

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