Truth is stranger than fiction
Sometimes what actually happens is more bizarre than anything that could have been imagined.
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Other Idioms and Phrases with Truth is stranger than fiction
Real life can be more remarkable than invented tales, as in In our two-month trip around the world we ran into long-lost relatives on three separate occasions, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. This expression may have been invented by Byron, who used it in Don Juan (1833).
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