Naked truth
Plain unadorned facts, without concealment or embellishment. For example, What I’ve told you is the naked truth. This expression supposedly alludes to a fable in which Truth and Falsehood went bathing, Falsehood then dressed in Truth’s clothes, and Truth, refusing to take another’s clothes, went naked. [ Late 1500s ]
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