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In reality, this is unwelcome to hear
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home truth
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Word definitions for home truth in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In the second extract he might have been risking telling a home truth to his government. ▪ Some home truth , no doubt.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A true but unwelcome statement.
Usage examples of home truth.
Like many men who take life easily, he had the knack of saying a home truth occasionally to those who felt themselves virtuously out of temper.
He waited to see how Penny would take a little plain home truth thrown in her face.
She would give a very great deal not to be in this man's way when he started in on telling somebody a home truth or two.
His transparent honesty allowed him to put his foot in his mouth, and every now and then to come out with a home truth nobody else would have got away with.