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grain of truth

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a grain of truth

a small amount of truth. There's a grain of truth in what she says but it's greatly exaggerated.

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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.

Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

In this false statement there was mingled a grain of truth.

I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context

There was perhaps a grain of truth mixed up with this last report.

The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context

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