| 释义 |
true adverb especially in Aboriginal English, is it true?, really? AUSTRALIA, 1959
idiomtrue► ring trueso ___ it's not true BrEBrEspoken used in order to emphasize how much of a particular quality someone or something has, how much or little of something there is etc :Maurice is so fussy it isn't true.We played so badly it wasn't true. We lost 7-0. —see also so ___ it's not even funny
See:- (early) morning dreams come true
- (one's) (true) stripes
- (one's) true color(s)
- (one's) true colours
- come true
- course of true love never did run smooth
- course of true love never ran smoothly, the
- dream come true
- dream come true, a
- find true north
- hold good
- hold good/true
- hold true
- Many a true word is spoken in jest
- Morning dreams come true
- one true pairing
- out of true
- reveal (one's) (true) colors
- reveal (one's) (true) stripes
- ring false
- ring true
- ring true/false/hollow
- run to form
- run true to form
- show (one) in (one's) true colors
- show (one's) (true) colors
- show (one's) (true) colours
- show (one's) (true) stripes
- show one's true colors
- show one's true colors, to
- show your true colours
- so (something) it isn't true
- so bad, stupid, etc. it isn't true
- the course of true love never did run smooth
- the course of true love never ran smoothly
- there's many a true word spoken in jest
- to thine own self be true
- too good to be true
- too right
- too right/true
- too true
- tried and true
- true as Bob
- true as God
- true as steel
- true believer
- true blue
- true colors
- true enough
- true grit
- true to
- true to (one's) colors
- true to (one's) word
- true to form
- true to life
- true to word
- true up
- twelve good men and true
- twelve good people and true
- your, his, etc. true colours
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