英和和英

名詞

naked truth (plural naked truths)

1. The blunt, unfiltered facts or truth of a scenario or circumstance; reality.
   • 2012, Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis, Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World, →ISBN:

     We can offer ourselves the option of taking the red pill and, when the circumstances are right, we shall not be able to resist the lure of the naked truth; however hard it may be to stare it in the face.

   • 2001, Kim Cooper, David Smay, Bubblegum music is the naked truth:

     My kid and her galpals all played this song five hundred thousand times in a row when they first brought it home...

   • 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76:

     Is naked truth actable in true life?

   • 2008, Linda Mi-Suk Enos, The Korean Palace of Honolulu, Condensed (6 x 9) Version, page 462,

     Silently Melissa listened to her mother as she softly convincingly spoke the raw naked truth the best way she knew how without shell shocking the girl.

   • 2000 January 31, marcab_4, “Fight the Marcabians !”, in alt.religion.scientology‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

     Enjoy, Xavier, the Xenu:
     This is not B-sh-t, is the naked Truth!!!
     2000 is the year of the end of C0$
     2000 is the beginning of the end of ETERNITY
     2000 is the YEAR OF David Miscarriage's SQUIRRELING
     Miscarriage, K-ob-RIM, and Mor(xx)on SUCKS!!!