hard truth
Painful but accurate
A hard truth is a fact that is difficult to accept or acknowledge, usually because it challenges comfortable beliefs or requires painful self-examination.
Hard truths tend to be things people would rather not hear: The hard truth is that talent alone won't get you there.
The phrase implies the information is unwelcome but ultimately undeniable.
- brutal honestyUnsparing directness in speech
- difficultyState of being hard
- rude awakeningStartling unpleasant realization
- wake up callAlert that demands attention
- harsh realityUncomfortable actual circumstances
fact · reality · face the music · mortality · consequences · certainty · actuality · verity · acceptance · bitter pill · vulnerability · tough love · accountability · honesty · confrontation · inevitability · genuineness · undeniability
- honestyhonesty, candor, sincerity, dishonesty, frankness
- truthsfacts, fact, reality, verity, verities
- harsh realitiesreality check, brutal honesty, harsh criticism, harsh reality, reality
- candorfrankness, directness, bluntness, candor, straightforwardness
- Candor Phrasesto be honest, honestly, frankly, speaking frankly, if i'm being honest
hard truthwhite lie
Harmless minor falsehood
wishful thinking · polite fiction · fairy tale · fantasy · delusion
hard truthevasion
Act of escaping detection
equivocation · sugarcoating · hedging · euphemism · spin
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