Wiktionary
a. (context attributive only English) real, true, actual. adv. (alternative form of honest to God English)
WordNet
adj. used informally especially for emphasis; "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" [syn: honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure-enough(a)]
Usage examples of "honest-to-god".
Joe did it because he was hungry for an enchilada made from honest-to-God Milagro frijoles, with some Devine Company cojones mixed in.
Only at this point I've had my bellyful, -and so help me God, I would gladly trade dinner in the Kremlin for one honest-to-God whiff of Navy stack gas.
And now the Federals are up there horning in, and this consul general informs us that even the dead man wasn't a plain honest-to-God American –.
I dont know how I knew that he wasnt just busy getting real cream out of the fridge to pour into an honest-to-God cream pitcher.
The Frontier Bar owner, Tranquilino Jeantete, said (with a sardonic wink) that Joe did it because he was hungry for an enchilada made from honest-to-God Milagro frijoles, with some Devine Company cojones mixed in.
But the food she magicked up Gouda cheese and tinned beef and honest-to-God greenhouse wheat wafers was straight out of the Arabian Nights.
If you didn't wear a real, honest-to-gods poncho, handwoven either by some poor Guatemalan peasant or somebody named Moonflower—if you had some kind of polyester fake, you were what we called a 'day-tripper' or a 'plastic hippie.
The king of Rheged made some sort of speech, which Stirling couldn't hear, then Thaney laid an honest-to-god laurel wreath on the winner's head.
I mean, sentient computers, Silurians, punk rockers and zombies I've seen, but real honest-to-God alien royalty?
It's the old Rainbow Coalition again, plus the techies, with a real honest-to-god Indian scientist hero to be their figurehead!
Benito had been smart-mouthed and Marco had finally backed the boy up against the wall and threatened honest-to-God serious mayhem if Benito didn't shape up.
But this was not only an honest-to-God relative, this was the kid he really would have grown up with, and been with, and done kid things with, if his mother hadn't timed out on him and left him in one hell of a mess.
This was my first look at an actual, honest-to-God, zoot suit outside of old photos, and the whole package was totally killer-diller.