to be honest

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to be honest

A set phrase used to emphasize that one is speaking truthfully (and perhaps reluctantly). Well, to be honest, I've never liked her husband that much. I know you guys love going to bars on Saturday night, but to be honest, it really doesn't interest me.

See also: honest, to

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if I'm honest
no fox given
AIIC
(my) right hand to God
boom goes the dynamite
dynamite
TILII
up with
up with (someone or something)

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Maybe when we are honest about the holes in our playing, it gives us courage to be honest about the holes in our teaching and in our professional relationships, instead of looking the other way.

The emperor has no clothes

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to be fair to you
To Be Filed
To Be Frank
To Be Freaky
To be friends with
To Be Frigging Honest
To be from
to be full of oneself
To Be Furnished
To be game
To be game
To be gathered to one's people
to be given a clean bill of health
To be great
to be had
To be hand and glove with
To Be Handed In
To Be Hated
to be head and shoulders above
to be hell bent on
to be hell bent on it
to be hell bent on something
to be hell-bent on
to be hell-bent on it
to be hell-bent on something
to be hellbent on
to be hellbent on it
to be hellbent on something
To Be Hired
to be home free
to be honest
to be hot under the collar
to be hung out to dry
To Be Ignored
To be ill off
To Be Implemented
To be in
to be in a blue funk
To be in a nutshell
To be in a pickle
To be in alt
To be in bad odor
to be in clover
To be in conclave
To be in for it
To be in full feather
To be in high feather
To be in leading strings
To be in liquor
To be in luck
To be in mischief
To be in one's cups
to be in over one's head
to be in sackcloth and ashes
to be in safe hands
to be in seventh heaven
to be in shape
To be in the doldrums
to be in the picture
to be in the right/wrong place at the right time
to be in the same boat as
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