单词 | truth is stranger than fiction |
释义 | Idioms and Phrases with Truth is stranger than fictiontruth is stranger than fiction Real life can be more remarkable than invented tales, as in In our two-month trip around the world we ran into long-lost relatives on three separate occasions, proving that truth is stranger than fiction. This expression may have been invented by Byron, who used it in Don Juan (1833). The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Truth is stranger than fictionSometimes what actually happens is more bizarre than anything that could have been imagined. Words nearby Truth is stranger than fictiontruth-condition, truth drug, truthful, truth-function, truthiness, Truth is stranger than fiction, truth or consequences, truth serum, truth set, Truth, Sojourner, truth table The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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