nugget of truth
English
Noun
nugget of truth (plural nuggets of truth)
- (idiomatic) A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement.
- 1989, Walter A. Goffart, Rome's Fall and After, page 59:
- Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage.
- 2003, Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know, page 286:
- This book identifies twelve teachings that sound plausible because they each contain a nugget of truth.
- 2008 January 1, “Clinton's Hispanic edge over Obama”, in Chicago Tribune:
- Unfortunately, there is a nugget of truth to the notion of black and Hispanic tensions but, like politics, the friction tends to be very local.
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Translations
small amount of truth
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