ring of truth
English
Noun
- The trust-inspiring sound, tenor, or impression of being truthful.
- 1874, Edward Payson Roe, Opening a Chestnut Burr, ch. 20,
- I am too well accustomed to the taking of evidence not to detect the ring of truth.
- 1908, Edith Wharton, "The Pretext,"
- She could hear the ring of truth in young Dawnish's voice.
- 2006, "Verbatim," Time, 20 Feb.,
- It is fiction. But it has the absolute ring of truth.
- 1874, Edward Payson Roe, Opening a Chestnut Burr, ch. 20,
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