Truth

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Some remarks suggest the opposite of what they say. Examples: “to tell
you the truth“, “I’ll be perfectly honest with you“, and “let me be
frank”. When a person starts a comment with one of those phrases, I can
only suppose that they are informing me that they never tell the truth
but, just for this once, they are planning to do so. Either that or
they are getting ready to lie through their teeth and are trying to
take the edge off of it by denying it in advance.
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