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单词 the truth will out
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the truth will out
(a) To be discovered, become widely known, come out; (also) to find some means of self-expression. Now only in proverbial phrases, as murder will out, the truth will out, etc.
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?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) xxxvii, in Anglia (1881) 4 198 Wille þei, nille þei, out hit shal And ben ful couþ oueral.
c1390 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale 1766 Mordre wol out certeyn, it wol nat faille.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 5356 But at þe laste it out shal.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ii. 76 In the ende trueth will out . View more context for this quotation
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cccxlvi, in Poems (1878) 223 But it will out; for Chronicles haue made It Common Chimney talke.
1764 S. Foote Patron iii. 67 The whole secret will certainly out.
1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 232 Snobbery, like murder, will out.
1887 W. Westall Her Two Millions xxviiMurder will out’. They say so, because they have no idea how often murders don't out.
1992 J. MacKenna Visiting Day in Fallen 114 Bad blood will out, isn't that what you said to your missus?
2000 M. Beaumont e 213 Auntie has it on tape so the truth will out.
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