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naked truth

Idioms

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

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021

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

It was not possible to deceive himself an instant longer, for the naked truth lay staring into his eyes.

From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood

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