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Truth will out

Cultural  

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

truth will out Idioms  

  1. 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.

Example Sentences

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Eventually, as in any satisfying story, the truth will out.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

“It’s one thing for a student to feel that, through the free exchange of ideas, ‘the truth will out.’

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

The truth will out, we keep telling ourselves.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2018

They could operate under the belief that the truth will out and the faith that the truth shall set people free.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2011

The truth is, I love her to distraction, and fear to acknowledge it to myself; yet truth will out.'

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

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