📕adjectives/NOUN + truth
🔴the whole/full truth
✨Investors should have been told the whole truth.
🔴the simple/plain/naked truth (=the truth, with nothing added, left out, or hidden)
✨The simple truth is that there isn’t enough money to pay for it.
🔴the sad/painful truth (=something that is true but that you regret)
✨She still misses him, and that’s the sad truth.
🔴the awful/terrible/dreadful etc truth
✨She could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth.
🔴the honest truth (=used to emphasize that you are telling the truth)
✨We never came here to steal anything, and that’s the honest truth.
🔴the gospel truth (=the complete truth)
✨Don’t take everything she says as the gospel truth.
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🔴the whole/full truth
✨Investors should have been told the whole truth.
🔴the simple/plain/naked truth (=the truth, with nothing added, left out, or hidden)
✨The simple truth is that there isn’t enough money to pay for it.
🔴the sad/painful truth (=something that is true but that you regret)
✨She still misses him, and that’s the sad truth.
🔴the awful/terrible/dreadful etc truth
✨She could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth.
🔴the honest truth (=used to emphasize that you are telling the truth)
✨We never came here to steal anything, and that’s the honest truth.
🔴the gospel truth (=the complete truth)
✨Don’t take everything she says as the gospel truth.
🧩#truth_collocations
🧩#Essential_English_words
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