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Truth will out

  1. One way or another, in spite of all efforts to conceal it, the truth will come to be known.


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Idioms and Phrases

The facts will be known, as in She thought she could get away with it, but truth will out, and I'm sure she'll get caught . Shakespeare used this idiom in The Merchant of Venice (2:2): “But in the end truth will out.” Also see murder will out .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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