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grain of truth

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(a) grain of truth
even the smallest amount of truth. The attorney was unable to find a grain of truth in the defendant's testimony. If there were a grain of truth to your statement, I would trust you.
See also: grain, truth


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Experience and in-telligence combined to assure me that there could be no slightest grain of truth or possibility in your wild tale--it was fiction pure and simple.
In this false statement there was mingled a grain of truth.
There was perhaps a grain of truth mixed up with this last report.
 
 
 
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