Idiom
God's honest truth
Meaning
Unquestionable, absolute truth.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I am telling you the God's honest truth.”
“I did not break your vase, and that is the God's honest truth.”
“Despite the mounting pressure to lie, he looked his accuser in the eye and swore he was telling the God's honest truth.”
Examples
simple
“I am telling you the God's honest truth.”
contextual
“I did not break your vase, and that is the God's honest truth.”
complex
“Despite the mounting pressure to lie, he looked his accuser in the eye and swore he was telling the God's honest truth.”
Origin
From the noun truth, intensified by the redundant addition of honest and further reinforced by the invocation of God. The phrase relies on the traditional standing of the deity as an exceptionally trustworthy authority.
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