KERNELOFTRUTH

kernel of truth

Noun

  1. A core accuracy at the heart of a claim or narrative which also contains dubious or fictitious elements.
    There may be a kernel of truth in the story of how George Washington confessed to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.
    It's about a young man (Billy Crudup) who tries to distill the true biography of his dying father (Albert Finney) by looking for the kernels of truth in the many tall tales he has told.''


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