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if the truth were known

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if the truth were known
Prov. if people knew how something really was, instead of how it appears to be. If the truth were known, people wouldn't shop at that store. Its owners aren't as honest as they seem. Sam: You're always polite to Fred, but you don't really like him, do you? Alan: Well, no, if the truth were known.
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The logging industry resorts to these tactics for a simple reason: If the truth were known, the same folks from whom they have been extracting huge subsidies for decades would run them out of our forests and watersheds.
 
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