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Truth will out
- One way or another, in spite of all efforts to conceal it, the truth will come to be known.
Idioms and Phrases
The facts will be known, as in She thought she could get away with it, but truth will out, and I'm sure she'll get caught . Shakespeare used this idiom in The Merchant of Venice (2:2): “But in the end truth will out.†Also see murder will out .Example Sentences
“You try to set up the game of science so that the truth will out despite this ugly side of human nature.â€
Eventually, as in any satisfying story, the truth will out.
"I knew I was innocent and the truth will out and it has," he said.
But as Shakespeare assured us, “At the length truth will out.â€
There is a lesson in there for McCarthy and any others who may be trying to rewrite the events behind the Capitol riot: The truth will out.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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