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词汇 home-truth
释义 home truth
noun[ C ]
mainly UKuk /ˌhəʊm ˈtruːθ/ us /ˌhoʊm ˈtruːθ/
a true but unpleasant fact about yourself that another person tells you: 令人不愉快的事实
He decided it was time to tell her a few home truths.他觉得是时候告诉她一些坏消息了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Reality and truth
actuality
apothegm
authenticity
axiomatically
brute fact
God's truth
gospel
immediacy
impostor syndrome
it is what it isidiom
real life
realia
the real McCoy
the real thing
the real worldphrase
truth is stranger than fictionidiom
truth will outidiom
veracity
verisimilitude
verity

Examples of home truth


home truth
By that, he meant that any unpalatable hometruth would be accepted by his people if it were expressed in the right manner.
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The hometruth is now sinking into our people that our survival as an independent economic nation is at stake.
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There is a hometruth in that graphic point.
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What a simple hometruth!
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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