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naked truth

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  1. Plain unadorned facts, without concealment or embellishment. For example, What I've told you is the naked truth. This expression supposedly alludes to a fable in which Truth and Falsehood went bathing, Falsehood then dressed in Truth's clothes, and Truth, refusing to take another's clothes, went naked. [Late 1500s]

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“We seek justice and this will be revealed in all its naked truth, not through some ordinary steps but in all its naked truth,” Erdogan said on Sunday, according to the semiofficial Anadolu news agency.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2018

The Harding/ Kerrigan incident exposed and exemplified the naked truth about the Olympics and our culture.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

Now, with the AFC and NFC championship games on tap, along with four Super Bowl possibilities, we will have to wait until late Sunday afternoon for the naked truth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2016

I achieved my dream, which confronted me with a naked truth: The dream has been won, and it is not enough.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2013

It was like the reply of a child in its simple, naked truth.

From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles

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