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nugget of truth

n. (context idiomatic English) A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement.

Usage examples of "nugget of truth".

His instincts were uncanny, and behind those kindly eyes and rumpled look was a razor-sharp mind that could peel away layers of deception and dig down to that tiny nugget of truth buried under a mound of Bullshit.

Grant had spoken partly in jest, but a nugget of truth gleamed there.

Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans to love.