verdad
truth ; verity.
This is when children are not really concerned with scientific truth; they believe in Father Christmas anyway, even if there lurks the suspicion that there is something rather fishy about it all.
His listeners looked around at each other and acknowledged the verity of his statement by nodding assents.
actuar como un hombre de verdad
man up
It is time for the country to man up, put aside politics, and do something that is hard, unpopular, dangerous and frightening.
a decir verdad
to tell the truth
if the truth be known
if the truth be told
in all truth
in truth
to be fair
quite frankly
in (all) fairness
To tell the truth, I may speak, on this being indeterminate and indivisible, only tautologically: the being is the being.
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
If the truth be told, both sides of the political spectrum suffer from those who operate on emotions rather than logic.
In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.
But why had he said he offered to do the work for the superintendent when in truth she had initiated the request?.
To be fair, this was not Ewart's or Edwards' idea of a public library.
The whole work hard, play hard mantra unfortunately shows no sign of stopping even though it's quite frankly a marketing con.
In all fairness, there are very few, if any, Benjamin Franklins in the contemporary American firmament either.
a decir verdad
fact is
the fact is that...
the fact of the matter is that...
the truth of the matter is that...
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen.
The fact is that income inequality is real - it's been rising for more than 25 years.
But the fact of the matter is that they wouldn't have gotten the chance of a lifetime if not for the hard work of Epperson.
In some ways I understand this line of reasoning but the truth of the matter is that all of us will kick the bucket at some point.
a la hora de la verdad
when push comes to shove
if it comes to the crunch
when it comes to the crunch
when the worst comes to the worst
if (the) worst comes to (the) worst
when the crunch comes to the crunch
if the crunch comes to the crunch
if (the) worse comes to (the) worst
When push comes to shove, it seems that short-term economic interests steamroller scientific arguments.
You may never need the soldering iron, but if it comes to the crunch and you suddenly find you need one, you'll be glad it's there.
Interestingly, when it comes to the crunch, there seem to be a hell of a lot of agnostics out there.
When the worst comes to the worst what we should really fear is ourselves, and each other.
If the worst comes to the worst and you are attacked, try to escape rather than fight back, especially if you believe that your assailant may be armed.
But above all, he is still my brother and when the crunch comes to the crunch, we will all be there for him, no matter what the circumstances.
He's told the Argies that if the crunch comes to the crunch America will side with Britain.
If worse comes to worst, you can always see if your employer may be amenable this time to giving you a cash advance.
al final, se sabrá la verdad
it will come out in the wash
Conspiracy theory maybe but I do feel there is more to this than meets the eye and as they say it will come out in the wash.
amigo de verdad
true friend
'You are a true friend, Jeanne,' the secretary smiled, relieved.
apartarse del camino de la verdad
stray from + the straight and narrow
Even the best of parents have kids who stray from the straight and narrow.
aunque a decir verdad
Mind you
'Mind you,' the manager appended, 'I'm suggesting this as a permanent arrangement, not as a stop-gap measure'.
averiguar la verdad
discern + the truth
find out + the truth
Discerning the truth in a situation sometimes takes cunning.
A pessimist is a person who used to be an optimist until he found out the truth.
bala de verdad
live bullet
Seventeen people were seriously injured when live bullets instead of blanks were fired into a crowd at a military open day.
búsqueda de la verdad
truth-seeking
The librarian's professional values include service, commitment to truth-seeking and intellectual freedom and a sense of responsibility (stewardship of knowledge).
camino de la verdad, el
straight and narrow (path), the
Most of the ethical systems that have been devised by humans have some conception of what Christianity thinks of as the straight and narrow.
comportarse como un hombre de verdad
man up
It is time for the country to man up, put aside politics, and do something that is hard, unpopular, dangerous and frightening.
conocer la verdad
discern + the truth
know + the truth
Discerning the truth in a situation sometimes takes cunning.
Everyone thinks she's just a dotty old woman, but Joe knows the truth.
conocerse la verdad
the truth + come out
She went down in their estimation when the truth came out.
cuatro verdades
home truth
The book `Life's Like That' demystifies some myths, hopefully triggered some change and established some home truths about homosexuality.
cuatro verdades bien dichas
home truth
The book `Life's Like That' demystifies some myths, hopefully triggered some change and established some home truths about homosexuality.
decir la verdad
tell + the truth
speak + the truth
come + clean
He told the truth in reply to the question from the chairwoman.
The situation can improve especially when people have the courage to speak the truth regardless of the consequences.
Coming clean to voters is something she's gonna have to get used to if she is really serious about getting her feet wet in elected politics.
decir la verdad sobre
give + Nombre + the lowdown on
Beck added: 'We would have given you the lowdown on Tilly the Hun' = Beck añadió: "Te lo hubieramos contado todo sobre Tilly el alemán".
decir la verdad, toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad
to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
The speaker advises administrators to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
de verdad
wholeheartedly [whole-heartedly]
for real
worth + Posesivo + mettle
self-respecting
I agree whole-heartedly that the subject approach is used chiefly by the beginner, whether it is a historical researcher or a high school student who is looking for term paper material.
As many people now know, text messages roaming around the grapevine such as 'the lady finally met her match' is for real.
Of course, any composer who's worth his mettle will be able to work with just his trusted piano and his ears.
Why any self-respecting female would wear this t-shirt is completely beyond me.
encontrar la verdad
find + the truth
Finding the truth is difficult when we're faced with conflicting views from thousands of media and Internet sources.
en honor a la verdad
in (all) fairness
in all honesty
in (all) fairness
But in fairness this publicity alone will be discriminatory, and necessarily.
In all honesty does weight have a huge impact on who you fancy?.
In all fairness, there are very few, if any, Benjamin Franklins in the contemporary American firmament either.
en verdad
in truth
true
in all truth
But why had he said he offered to do the work for the superintendent when in truth she had initiated the request?.
True, we do have our unselfish heroes, men who willingly have laid down their lives for others, the wholly unselfish mother, the man who will step aside for the benefit of others.
In all truth, it must be said that this howling, hissing, foot-scraping body of young rapscallions found some cause for complaint.
falsa verdad
false truth
Over the last year he has pushed her around, fed her false truths, built up her hopes then crashed them to the ground.
hallar el camino de la verdad
think + Posesivo + way to the truth
They both hoped that men would be able to think their way to the truth when given all the information.
hallar la verdad
find + the truth
Finding the truth is difficult when we're faced with conflicting views from thousands of media and Internet sources.
hora de la verdad
moment of truth
Some single concepts can only be denoted by more than one word, eg mother of pearl, moment of truth.
hora de la verdad, la
showdown
The article 'Search engine showdown' reports the results of lab tests carried out on 7 major World Wide Web (WWW) search engines available free of charge on the Internet.
la pura verdad
the plain truth
I put you on notice that you may argue till the cows come home about Jabari having blood on his hands, but the plain truth in this case is that Jabari and Hamas were honoring the ceasefire.
la verdad
the lowdown (on)
Learn about the best places to buy ingredients, hear the lowdown on the top brands, and get plenty of practice balancing sweet, salty, sour.
la verdad + darse a conocer
the truth + come out
She went down in their estimation when the truth came out.
la verdad es que
if the truth be known
if the truth be told
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
If the truth be told, both sides of the political spectrum suffer from those who operate on emotions rather than logic.
la verdad es que
the fact is that...
fact is
the fact of the matter is that...
the truth of the matter is that...
The fact is that income inequality is real - it's been rising for more than 25 years.
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen.
But the fact of the matter is that they wouldn't have gotten the chance of a lifetime if not for the hard work of Epperson.
In some ways I understand this line of reasoning but the truth of the matter is that all of us will kick the bucket at some point.
la verdad + salir a la luz
the truth + come out
She went down in their estimation when the truth came out.
la verdad sea dicha
to tell the truth
in (all) fairness
To tell the truth, I may speak, on this being indeterminate and indivisible, only tautologically: the being is the being.
In all fairness, there are very few, if any, Benjamin Franklins in the contemporary American firmament either.
la verdad sea dicha que
if the truth be told
If the truth be told, both sides of the political spectrum suffer from those who operate on emotions rather than logic.
la verdad sobre
the skinny on
The article is entitled 'The skinny on metadata'.
llegada la hora de la verdad
if it comes to the crunch
when the crunch comes to the crunch
if the crunch comes to the crunch
You may never need the soldering iron, but if it comes to the crunch and you suddenly find you need one, you'll be glad it's there.
But above all, he is still my brother and when the crunch comes to the crunch, we will all be there for him, no matter what the circumstances.
He's told the Argies that if the crunch comes to the crunch America will side with Britain.
llegado el momento de la verdad
if it comes to the crunch
when the crunch comes to the crunch
if the crunch comes to the crunch
You may never need the soldering iron, but if it comes to the crunch and you suddenly find you need one, you'll be glad it's there.
But above all, he is still my brother and when the crunch comes to the crunch, we will all be there for him, no matter what the circumstances.
He's told the Argies that if the crunch comes to the crunch America will side with Britain.
llegar a la verdad
get to + the truth
Many times the key to success is thoroughly digging into the facts, deposing as many people as possible, and finally getting to the truth.
media verdad
half truth
half-fact
Father-son relationships in the African American family are shrouded in social myths and half truths.
Genocide theorists deploy a welter of sociological facts and half-facts to buttress their case.
munición de verdad
live ammunition
live munition
Soldiers are being told they cannot train with live ammunition unless they are due to go to Afghanistan, according to reports.
'The use of live munitions must also not cause collateral damage to property or lives of innocent members of the public,' Anupong said = "El uso de la munición de verdad tampoco debe causar daños colaterales a la propiedad o a la vida de los miembros inocentes del público", dijo Anupong .
nada + estar + más apartado de la verdad
nothing + can + be further from the truth
Jones (2002) pointed out that whereas many librarians may see these activities as a 'waste of time, nothing could be further from the truth' = Jones (2002) señaló que mientras que muchos bibliotecarios pueden ver estas actividades como una "pérdida de tiempo, nada estaba más lejos de la verdad".
nada + estar + más lejos de la verdad
nothing + can + be further from the truth
Jones (2002) pointed out that whereas many librarians may see these activities as a 'waste of time, nothing could be further from the truth' = Jones (2002) señaló que mientras que muchos bibliotecarios pueden ver estas actividades como una "pérdida de tiempo, nada estaba más lejos de la verdad".
no haber nada de verdad en
there + be + any/no truth to
But now she was beginning to wonder if there was any truth to the old adage that 'It's not what you know, but who you know'.
no preguntes porque no te puedo decir la verdad
ask no questions and hear no lies
It is a case of ask no questions and hear no lies: if you have not been asked for it, then you will not be required to tell the truth.
no ser verdad
be untrue
You think that post-coordinate indexing does not usually include the translation stage of indexing: this is untrue.
para decir la verdad
to be honest
I was not, to be honest, expecting to enjoy the novel and was reading it as a duty, having promised Bob that I would.
pura verdad, la
unvarnished truth, la
pure truth, the
Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.
But the pure truth can only be perceived by discerning it from falsehood.
¡qué verdad que es!
how true!
The causes of this interest are naturally extremely various and differ from one man to another; it may be the typical (and we say 'How true!') or the abnormal (and we say 'How strange!').
revelar la verdad
reveal + the truth
This article examines the specific methods used to address the abuses perpetrated by governments and to reveal the truth.
revelarse la verdad
the truth + come out
She went down in their estimation when the truth came out.
saber cúal es la verdad
discern + the truth
Discerning the truth in a situation sometimes takes cunning.
saber la verdad
know + the truth
Everyone thinks she's just a dotty old woman, but Joe knows the truth.
saberse la verdad
the truth + come out
She went down in their estimation when the truth came out.
seguir el camino de la verdad
keep on + the straight and narrow
walk + the straight and narrow
But my Dad's my Dad, whatever he's done in the past, and he swears blind that he'll be keeping on the straight and narrow from now on.
After establishing himself as one of the world's best safecrackers, he decides to retire from his life of crime and walk the straight and narrow.
ser verdad
be true
It does appear to be true that the slogan 'Information - one world' is no exaggeration.
ser verdad de
be true of
This is also true of the facet indicators used to introduce the special auxiliaries, - (hyphen), and .0 (point nought).
suero de la verdad
truth serum
In 'Truth Serum', Cooper seems tempted to omit nothing, evoking not only his birth but even his conception before the end of the first chapter.
toda la verdad sobre
the skinny on
The article is entitled 'The skinny on metadata'.
una pizca de verdad
a grain of truth
However, that does not mean that his point regarding the librarian's attitude doesn't have a grain of truth to it.
¿verdad?
do you?
right?
weren't you?
'You don't waste any time making suggestions, do you?' said she, at length, musingly'.
This is Archie Bunker crap, right?.
'You were far away, weren't you?' spoke the director across the desk fetchingly = "Estaban muy lejos, ¿verdad?" dijo el director agradablemente detrás del mostrador.
verdad amarga
home truth
ugly truth
The book `Life's Like That' demystifies some myths, hopefully triggered some change and established some home truths about homosexuality.
Some Muslims try to sugar-coat the ugly truths about the way their religion is practised.
verdad a medias
half truth
half-fact
Father-son relationships in the African American family are shrouded in social myths and half truths.
Genocide theorists deploy a welter of sociological facts and half-facts to buttress their case.
verdades eternas
nuggets of truth
Somewhere down in the depths of the chaos, there are nuggets of truth - you just have to dig a long way to find them!.
verdades eternas, las
eternal verities, the
The eternal verities of collection management all stem from critical judgement.
verdad eterna
eternal truth
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
verdad evangélica
gospel truth
The article 'Library spreads gospel truth' describes the library at the Toronto headquarters of the Anglican Church of Canada.
verdad incómoda
inconvenient truth
Everyone is riding the hype of 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and even Congress has caught the fever... but it doesn't feel rigth yet.
verdad molesta
inconvenient truth
Everyone is riding the hype of 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and even Congress has caught the fever... but it doesn't feel rigth yet.
verdad obvia
truism
During the past century this truism has been pronounced as regularly as any other in the field of library instruction.
