Learn English – “Truth be told” as a complete sentence

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I was watching a movie and there was something like advertising the next episode in the bottom of the screen. It was a text which i can't match with the english grammar. Just this :

Truth be told

I have some questions about this sentence.

  1. Why not using "the truth"?
  2. What does it mean exactly? Is this some kind of telling something about the future? If it was my sentence, i would say "The truth will be told".
  3. Is this sentence grammatically right?

Best Answer

It's an idiom, an expression. You can't really use it as a complete sentence; normally, you'd say, for example: "truth be told, I don't really like pokémon." It means about the same thing as 'to be honest' or 'frankly'.

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