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• Truth will out
  Truth will out

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

  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.

Truth will out

Cultural  

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

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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.

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Example Sentences

“You try to set up the game of science so that the truth will out despite this ugly side of human nature.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

"I knew I was innocent and the truth will out and it has," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2022

The truth will out, we keep telling ourselves.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2018

In the digital present, we’ve come to expect that cover-ups don’t last, that the truth will out, usually sooner rather than later.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2015

But truth will out, and the truth is that Mary Dinnett planted evil thoughts and prejudices in Abel.

From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden