honest to God
I swear it
Honest to God is an emphatic assertion of sincerity or truthfulness, invoking God as witness: Honest to God, I had no idea she was married.
It can also express genuine amazement or exasperation: Honest to God, I've never seen anything like it.
Sometimes hyphenated when used as an adjective: an honest-to-God miracle.
- swear to GodInvoke deity as witness
- veritableTruly what's claimed
- truthfulAccurate and sincere
- genuineTruly what it claims
- sincereGenuinely felt, not feigned
hand to God · cross my heart · scout's honor · heartfelt · authentic · forthright · bona fide · for real · dead serious · true · candid · sure-enough · sworn · no lie · emphatic · unfeigned · veracious · earnest
honest to Godlying through one's teeth
Telling obvious, shameless falsehoods
bald-faced lie · deceiving · fibbing · bullshitting · making it up
honest to Godjust kidding
Retraction of a jest
sarcastically · ironically · tongue in cheek · not really · yeah right
honest, honesty, honestly, dishonest, dishonesty, godliness, ungodly, godless, godlessness