noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a kernel of truth
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There may be a kernel of truth in what he says.
grain of truth
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There is a grain of truth in all folklore and legend.
home truth
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It’s time someone told him a few home truths .
tell the truth
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‘I’m telling you the truth,’ she persisted.
the painful truth
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We won’t be able to keep the painful truth from the children.
the plain truth
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I don’t know, and that’s the plain truth .
the sad truth
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The sad truth is that the new law will not deter criminals.
the whole truth
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It was months before the whole truth came out.
told...a few home truths
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It’s time someone told him a few home truths .
truth drug
truth emerged
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Eventually the truth emerged .
universal truth
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a universal truth
unpalatable truth
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The unpalatable truth is that the team isn’t getting any better.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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The value of the political talks so far has been to expose three basic truths .
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Communism forgot that basic truth and the system collapsed.
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There is a basic truth in his assertion, for before his time the use of marble was rare in Roman architecture.
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What have been taught as their basic truths seem no longer to hold.
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Another over-eager cat has discovered one of the basic truths of garden life: never try to kill a toad.
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Such leaders understand very basic truths about human beings.
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And if religion was rational, and basic truths were plain, what justification could there be for compulsion?
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It is only the basic spiritual truths which surface time and again, expressed through different idioms.
close
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Even Plato was closer to the truth than you and yours, Gilbert.
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They can get closer to the truth .
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The latter would seem to be closer to the truth .
eternal
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Anselm carried into politics his search for an eternal order of truth and justice, unshakeable and subject to no alteration.
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I simply thought this was an inviolate, eternal truth .
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Secondly, their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender.
further
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Emotionally, nothing could be further from the truth .
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Nothing could be further from the truth , and, indeed, that is where lies the whole trouble with modern living.
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Nothing was further from the truth .
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It is important to remember that nothing could be further from the truth .
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If so, he couldn't be further from the truth .
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I thought I would have plenty of other opportunities but nothing could have been further from the truth .
plain
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The plain truth was that he hadn't witnessed what was going on behind him.
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The whole place was undeniably fouled; but there was another plain truth which was worse than this: she was home.
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In one way, the plain , unvarnished truth .
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That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth .
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But the plain truth is that we can not say what was really done for the children or what the results were.
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But they contain more plain truth than he is able to recognise.
sad
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But the sad truth is that words are all that Labour has while the Tories rule.
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The dates reflect a sad truth .
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The sad truth is that the average collector is unlikely to recover more than the most fragmentary remains of dinosaurs.
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The sad truth is that this source of power is already nearly tapped out.
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The sad truth is to tackle these subjects you have to be more than just willing, you have to be shite-hot.
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The sad truth is that conservatives flagrantly and lasciviously Frenchkissed those elements.
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The sad truth is that doctors who spend careers in research may forgo huge incomes from private practice.
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The sad truth is that Rosewood was not an isolated incident.
simple
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Even so, it took me till I got to my own house to realise the very simple truth .
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The simple truths according to Marx and Lenin are now crowded by doubts.
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No-one wanted to believe the simple truth .
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And once again, the extraordinarily simple underlying truths about this problem have been obscured by political bombast.
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The simple truth is you don't need to know that much to find your way around.
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One of the simplest truths about history is that progress is not linear.
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Certainly it misses the simple truth of patience.
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John Arlott's armour was his honest thought and simple truth .
universal
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What Turing showed is that this is not a universal truth .
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Awareness becomes heightened, and everyday domestic dramas unfold into staggering universal truths .
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Yet we find it difficult to take these definitive events and state categorically that they are universal truths for women engineers.
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A universal truth has to be digested and made part of our thinking and understanding.
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He was about to learn a universal truth of professional journalism.
whole
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Telling the whole truth about the Ayr salmon, rather than letting me off the hook, only improved the tale.
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That happens to be the whole truth .
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All true, but not the whole truth .
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In ethics cases, it means the truth is never the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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If you choose me then you have to tell me the whole truth - who your accomplice is.
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At the center, however, we were determined to tell the whole truth from first to last.
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Few biologists doubt that this is part of the truth , but is it the whole truth?
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Rather, he is acting from a deep sense of respect for the whole truth .
■ NOUN
home
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In the second extract he might have been risking telling a home truth to his government.
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Maybe we should listen to our friends when they tell us a few home truths .
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Expect home truths from a youngster or relative on Sunday.
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She'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending, heartless, authoritarian attitude.
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Tells the Collective Wisdom home truths .
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It was more in the field of sport that the unwelcome home truths were thrust into my face.
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It is not a particularly good book and Niki despises it, but it does have some home truths in it.
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He toyed with telling her a few home truths , but then decided it would do no good.
■ VERB
believe
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They believed that for once the truth should be told about the difficult life Diana has led and, for the most part, still leads.
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He believes the truth gets blurred when entertainment takes over the news, as it has.
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But again Hal believed it for the truth .
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No one would believe the truth even if you put their nose right up to it.
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The great error, his critics asserted, was to believe that veracity was truth .
discover
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I later discovered the truth of the Goring matter from Masko.
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My admiration for him was in proportion to the effort that had been necessary to discover the truth .
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The full inquests will be heard in May at the earliest, with families hoping at last to discover the truth .
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The root of materialism is probably a firm commitment to empirical scientific method as the only reliable way to discover truth .
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It was Verhencamp who discovered the truth - female anis throw each other's eggs out of the nest.
face
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If we had more courage at Goodison in facing up to the truth unpalatable though it may be things might begin to improve.
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It was a thing of a different sort to face the truth .
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Humane destruction is not easy to face , but fear of the unknown is often far worse than facing the truth .
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Sometimes folks have to face ugly, nasty truths about themselves.
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Suddenly, she felt lighter of heart, ready to face the truth she had long denied herself.
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The long incubation period means that no Third World country has yet faced the full truth of what is to come.
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In his view Fraser had delayed because he didn't want to face the truth .
find
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Such is the site of Callanish for the golden eagle and in its circle all may find strength and truth .
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Its charge is to find the truth in sweeping allegations of beatings and rapes.
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He soon became aware of pro-communist bias in subjects like history and wondered how he could find the real truth .
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He says the compulsion of scientists to find the absolute truth can lead to a kind of intellectual tyranny.
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Mr. Pollard says a complete overhaul of the system is needed, to establish guilt and innocence and find the truth .
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But he finds strength in that truth and uses it to his advantage.
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She was determined to find out the truth and act on it.
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Washington reporters could find out the truth .
know
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He knew Athelstan spoke the truth .
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None of the other doctors had ever talked to her that plainly, but she knew the truth when she heard it.
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We still do not know the full story of Brixton; therefore, we do not know the truth .
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Although the emperor was mightily embarrassed when he realized he was parading naked, he preferred knowing the truth .
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Something may be wrong but only one or two may know the truth .
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A few days later everyone knew the chilling truth .
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To know that he knew the truth at last.
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Only the person who wishes to know truth and life should then leave the land and go to the sea.
learn
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It was because they are afraid of the public learning the truth about Labour's taxation policies.
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How can a business or agency learn to tell the truth about its identity, its collective attitudes, and its actions?
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She adored her and still does because she's never learned the truth .
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She also wants to learn the truth about whether Matt really is guilty of slaughtering two teenage lovers after raping the girl.
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Oddy did not know the stolen items were for presents and was sorry to learn the truth , Mr Furness added.
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There is suffering and tragedy in this quirky love story as Toshi learns the truth of his parents' past.
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Jane was horrified when she learned the truth .
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Former President George Bush learned this painful truth four years ago.
reveal
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Shouldn't it be the people who have as their driving force the desire to reveal truths about human life?
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You know about my father: Scripture is revealed truth .
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But the Stone finds ways and means of revealing the truth to guide moles forward.
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Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths , even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
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But in the end Mrs Pegler is unwillingly forced to reveal the truth .
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Surface appearances, however, reveal only surface truths .
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Next week we could be warning, exposing, or revealing the truth about anything from holidays to your spring bulbs.
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Luther met Predestination as revealed truth: Calvin treated it as a mathematical formula and deduced the results.
speak
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It will speak the truth and straighten the record.
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She begged, Who are you, sufferer, that speak the truth To one who suffers?
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But the voice that had spoken waited, as if it knew that eventually Creggan would speak the truth .
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Chen knew I spoke the truth .
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Sylvie had raved, raved with that undertow of intensity which always made her seem to be speaking the truth .
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Will escapes the man but suspects that he spoke the truth .
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Nevertheless, Owen thought he might be speaking the truth .
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I speak the truth , yes?
tell
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If you do then tell me the truth .
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Erik maintains he is merely telling the truth .
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But what then is the difference between being told the truth and being shown it, and does the difference really matter?
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I expect you to tell me the truth .
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To tell the truth , I continued to use the stick for longer than was strictly necessary.
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You want us to tell the truth ?
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He remembered clearly that Murray had asked if he had any mail, and his instinct was to tell the truth .
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Raise take home pay. Tell the truth .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ounce of sense/truth/decency etc
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Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that results depend on factors other than staff efficiency. - T. Baines, Oxford.
bald statement/facts/truth
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And the truth was - the bald truth was - Lori was crazy about him.
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Historians do not make bald statements and always attempt to substantiate their point.
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The bald truth is he did the wrong thing, but perhaps he had some of the right reasons.
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The account relied more heavily on innuendo than bald statement but the message was clear.
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We recognised that the bald statement in the preceding paragraph requires amplification.
bend the truth
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More serious still is her unfortunate tendency to bend the truth.
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They don't just bend the truth, they simply reverse it.
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Unless very few ladies account for most male conquests, that suggests we all bend the truth.
economical with the truth
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Do not be downcast that you have been economical with the truth.
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He thought I had been economical with the truth.
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In insisting that no changes had been made to the original plan, his team was being economical with the truth.
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In view of the Warc footnote, this statement seems to have been economical with the truth.
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Members of his profession are often economical with the truth.
element of surprise/truth/risk/doubt etc
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I like the element of risk.
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If Weaver had been watching as Liz Spalding had been smuggled into the house, then the element of surprise was lost.
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It contains a major element of truth, even if it is not precisely the truth which its originators intended.
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The element of risk gave it an added excitement.
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There is an element of truth in all of these.
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There were elements of truth in this critique, Jim supposed.
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Web browsers, once limited to displaying text and graphics and downloading files, have created an entirely new element of risk.
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What I do is count on the element of surprise.
eternal truths
murder/the truth etc will out!
naked truth/self-interest/aggression etc
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And that's the naked truth Yes that's the naked truth.
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Lonrho itself is authority for the view that pursuit of naked self-interest by criminal means can never amount to conspiracy.
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Revealed ... the naked truth about Paul McCartney.
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The aristocracy of this period has been castigated for its naked self-interest and expediency.
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With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.
not a particle of truth/evidence etc
nothing could be further from the truth
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A lot of people think soufflés are hard to make. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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They say he is a spy, but nothing could be further from the truth.
stretch the truth/facts
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Reporters sometimes stretch the facts to catch a reader's eye.
the moment of truth
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The moment of truth came when I tasted the sauce.
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A-level students reach the moment of truth.
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An interesting study, this, of the varying techniques with which different men approached the moment of truth.
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And so the moment of truth.
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However, after a few weeks, cinema audiences dropped dramatically and the moment of truth arrived.
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Is this the moment of truth, he wrote, or the greatest temptation?
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It has become conscious of its history, and is approaching the moment of truth.
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They felt sure that at the moment of truth in the polling booth most voters will consider their wallets.
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This is the moment of truth for the Lions the six build-up provincial games can be forgotten.
the truth/fact of the matter is (that)
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For the fact of the matter is, all the fight has been taken out of Blue.
to tell (you) the truth
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I'm not sure how he did it, to tell you the truth.
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To tell you the truth, I can't stand Sandy's cooking.
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A bit like Mrs Riley, to tell the truth.
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But to tell the truth, for a long time I've been slightly lost as a dealer.
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Did people not trust me to tell the truth?
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He bathed a lot and never smelled even alive, to tell the truth.
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I don't know a great deal about flowers, to tell the truth.
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They must learn how to tell the truth and listen.
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We had a pretty good time I suppose, but to tell the truth I didn't feel like a party much.
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You want us to tell the truth?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ellis explains how truth and freedom are linked.
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fundamental truths about human nature
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One of the basic truths about human beings is that we want our lives to have meaning.
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Science is based around the search for truth .
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There is no truth to the rumors about him being arrested.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the truth was that I could not do this kind of traveling alone.
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But then another soundless glance brought home the truth .
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But United Nations officials called for caution, saying a government investigation was necessary to discover the truth .
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I could let it glow like truth in its own light.
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There the truth may by now be known.
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Whatever the truth , it is always convenient to blame outsiders for creating trouble.