truly
Related to truly: yours truly
truly yours
Used as a polite valediction. A variant of "yours truly." I hope to see you again soon. Truly yours, Jane.
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well and truly
Completely. I'd rather not make any big purchases until we are well and truly out of debt.
See also: and, truly, well
yours truly
1. A phrase used as a complimentary close to a letter, similar to "sincerely." Yours truly, Jane
2. Me; I; myself. My boss claims credit for all these projects, but do you know who did all the work? Yours truly! Everybody is jumping on their bandwagon, but you can count out yours truly, because I'm loyal to my team.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
yours truly
1. a closing phrase at the end of a letter, just before the signature. Yours truly, Tom Jones. Best wishes from yours truly, Bill Smith.
2. oneself; I; me. There's nobody here right now but yours truly. Everyone else got up and left the table leaving yours truly to pay the bill.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
yours truly
1. A closing formula for a letter, as in It was signed "Yours truly, Mary Smith." [Late 1700s]
2. I, me, myself, as in Jane sends her love, as does yours truly. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
yours ˈtruly
1 (informal, often humorous) I/me: Steve came first, Robin second, and yours truly came last. And of course, all the sandwiches will be made by yours truly.
2 (Yours Truly) (American English, formal, written) used at the end of a formal letter before you sign your name
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ˌwell and ˈtruly
(informal) completely: We were in the middle of the forest, and well and truly lost.See also: and, truly, well
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
yours truly
n. me, the speaker or writer. If it was up to yours truly, there wouldn’t be any such problem.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
yours truly
I, myself, or me: "Let me talk about a typical day in the life of yours truly" (Robert A. Spivey).
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
really and truly
Genuinely, undoubtedly. This redundancy (really and truly mean the same thing, but the repetition makes for emphasis) dates from the eighteenth century. The OED holds it is a North American children’s locution, but nearly all of its citations, ranging from Henry Fielding (1742) to the present, are from adult books. Thomas Macaulay used it in his The History of England (1849), “The king is really and truly a Catholic.”
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yours truly
I, me, myself. This phrase has been used as a closing formula for letters since the late eighteenth century. By the mid-nineteenth century it was also being used as a synonym for “I,” as in George A. Sala’s The Baddington Peerage (1860): “The verdict will be ‘Guilty, my Lord,’ against yours truly.”
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
yours truly
I. For whatever reason of modesty (or false modesty) that prevented speakers or writers from using the first-person singular pronoun “I,” the “yours truly” convention was established. It came from the standard letter closing. It sounded mannered when it was first used in the 19th century and even more so now. Other equally stilted circumlocutions for “I” or “me” used in writing are “your reporter” (still found in alumni class notes) and “your correspondent.”
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Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
- truly yours
- well and truly
- FTBOMH
- be in a class of (one's)/its own
- be in a class of your, its, etc. own
- get (one's) priorities right
- get your priorities right/straight
- get (one's) priorities straight
- get out with (one's) life
- get out with life