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| bend the truth v expr | figurative, euphemism (change, omit facts) | يحرّف الحقيقة |
| | Lawyers have been known to bend the truth in order to win cases. |
| | من المعروف أن المحامين يحرّفون الحقيقة ليفوزوا بالقضايا. |
| be economical with the truth v expr | UK, euphemism (lie, not tell whole truth) | ليس صادقًا تمامًا |
gospel,
gospel truth n | figurative (truth) | مؤكد، مطلق |
| | The gospel truth is that John didn't go to work, he went to play golf. |
| gospel truth n | figurative (unquestionable truth) | حقيقة لا غش فيها |
| | Don't take everything you read in the newspaper as the gospel truth. |
| grain of truth n | countable, figurative (tiny amount) | ذرة من شيء |
| | | بعض، شيء |
| | Every myth has a grain of truth. |
| | If that teacher had a grain of empathy for his students, he wouldn't humiliate them in class. |
| | في كل أسطورة ذرة من الحقيقة. // لو كان ذلك المدرّس يملك ذرة من التعاطف مع طلابه، لما كان يذلهم هكذا في صفه. |
| grain of truth n | (truthful element) | ذَرّة من الحقيقة |
| half-truth n | (partial lie) | نصف الحقيقة |
| home truth n | informal, often plural ([sth] hard to acknowledge) (مسألة حساسة عند الشخص) | حقيقة مرّة |
| | One of us needs to tell Joey some home truths: if he doesn't start studying, he's going to flunk his exams. |
if truth be told,
truth be told expr | (to be honest) | بصراحة، الحق يُقال |
| in all truth adv | (honestly) | بصراحة |
| in truth adv | (honestly, to tell the truth) | في الحقيقة |
| | In truth, I don't really like him – he's too arrogant. |
| It's the gospel truth expr | figurative, informal (it's the absolute truth) | حقيقة مطلقة |
| | He can make nonsense sound as if it's the gospel truth. |
| moment of truth n | (revelation) | اتّضاح الحقيقة |
| | I had a moment of truth when I realised he had been deceiving me. |
| moment of truth n | (when [sth] is shown to be success or failure) | اللحظة الحاسمة، لحظة الحقيقة |
| | Now is the moment of truth when we will find out whether this aeroplane will fly or not. |
| naked truth n | ([sth] brutally honest) | الحقيقة المجرَّدة |
| post-truth adj | (not valuing objective facts) (ما لا يقيم اعتبارًا للوقائع الموضوعية) | ما بعد الحقيقة، متجاوز للحقائق |
| revealed truth n | (revelation, epiphany) | كشف |
| | To accept a revealed truth as real, you must believe in the entity that revealed it. |
| self-evident truth n | ([sth] obvious) | حقيقة جلية |
| tell the truth v expr | (be honest) | يقول الصدق، يقول الحقيقة |
| | If a woman asks if you can guess her age, never tell her the truth! |
| the absolute truth n | ([sth] ultimately and universally true) | الحقيقة المطلقة |
| | We'll probably never know the absolute truth about the life of Jesus Christ. |
| the truth of the matter n | (facts, reality) | الحقيقة، الواقع |
| The truth shall set you free. expr | Biblical (knowledge is power) | الحق يحرِّركم، الحقيقة تحرِّركم |
| | "The truth shall set you free"; have you ever thought about what that statement means? |
| to tell the truth expr | (honestly) | بصراحة، في الحقيقة |
| | To tell the truth, the show wasn't very good. |
| truth or dare n | (question-and-answer game) | لعبة الصراحة والتحدّي |
truth serum,
truth drug n | (sodium pentothal) | مصل الحقيقة |
| | The CIA agent administered the truth serum to the suspected terrorist. |
| universal truth n | ([sth] absolutely and ultimately true) | حقيقة عامة |
| | It is a universal truth that the greatest pleasures in life are often the simplest ones. |