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honest to goodness
a. (alternative form of honest-to-goodness English) adv. honest; truly, really; (non-gloss definition: used to emphasize that a statement is true.)
Usage examples of "honest to goodness".
Mr Bbyrdwood de Trop Blogg was among his most distant connections) but every honest to goodness man in the land of the space of today knows that his back life will not stand being written about in black and white.