Crossword clues for home truth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
home truth
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.
Wiktionary
home truth
n. A true but unwelcome statement.
WordNet
home truth
n. an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)
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.