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 Translation for 'to tell the truth' from English to Swedish
VERB   to tell the truth | told the truth | told the truth
telling the truth | tells the truth
att säga sanningento tell the truth
Partial Matches
idiom
att se sanningen i vitögat
to face the truth
sanning {u}truth
3
att berättato tell
3
att ljugato tell a lie
unverified att anbefalla ngn. ngt. [beordra]to tell sb. to do sth.
detthe
3
dethe
denthe
3
geogr.
Arktis {n}
the Arctic
litt.F
Svinaherden [Saga av H.C. Andersen]
The Swineherd
geogr.
Atlanten {u}
the Atlantic
västerut {adv}to the west
geogr.
Nederländerna {n}
(the) Netherlands
filmF
Rivalerna [Jay Roach]
The Campaign
österut {adv}to the east
söderut {adv}to the south
norrut {adv}to the north
litt.F
Berättaren [Mario Vargas Llosa]
The Storyteller
filmF
De feta åren är förbi [Hans Weingartner]
The Edukators
vid {prep}on the
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Usage Examples English
  • Their view is that journalism's first loyalty is to the citizenry and that journalists are thus obliged to tell the truth and must serve as an independent monitor of powerful individuals and institutions within society.
  • A survey by Ipsos MORI released in 2011 reports that 88% of adults in the UK "trust doctors to tell the truth".
  • Since players are only required to tell the truth about one of the cards and the total points value they are trading, calamity cards can be slipped into a trade, thereby avoiding receiving the effects of the calamity.
  • After an unsuccessful attempt to make peace with his wife, Lord Windermere summons the courage to tell the truth to her, but at that moment Mrs Erlynne arrives at the party, where she is greeted coldly by Lady Windermere, spoiling his plan.
  • Scopes and the story of his trial were featured on the television game show "To Tell the Truth" on October 10, 1960.

  • In the 1960s and 1970s, Merrill was a recurring guest on several network television game and panel shows, including "Match Game", "To Tell the Truth", "What's My Line", and "Hollywood Squares".
  • stated that the novel was "a sad, sympathetic portrait of a man who has lived by lies and subterfuge for so long, he's forgotten how to tell the truth."
  • In 1967, Keyhoe appeared as himself on the May 23 episode of "To Tell the Truth", receiving three of four possible votes.
  • and her mother was the household's main breadwinner: Nixon's mother worked on the game show "To Tell the Truth", coaching the "impostors" who claimed to be the person described by the host.
  • Jon Hendricks wrote lyrics for "On the Trail", and the song was recorded for Hendricks' album "To Tell the Truth" (1975).

  • In the midst of his playing career, Howe appeared as himself on the March 27, 1967 episode of the CBS game show "To Tell the Truth".
  • and "To Tell the Truth". Each round of the game started with news footage that introduced the news story in question to the studio audience and home viewers out of earshot of the panelists.
  • Spiner (as Brent Mintz) appeared as an imposter on a 1972 episode of "To Tell the Truth".
  • Followers of traditional Yoruba religion can swear to tell the truth in court by "kissing a piece of iron in the name of Ogun."
  • Remembered today primarily as a regular panelist on the long-running "To Tell the Truth", she played Agnes Gooch in "Auntie Mame" on Broadway and in the film version (1958), a role for which she won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress, and later received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

  • The documentary film "Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth" (1998), directed by Robert B. Weide and narrated by Robert De Niro, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
  • In 1957, Tinsley appeared as a guest challenger on the television game show "To Tell the Truth".
  • He appeared as himself on the panel game show "To Tell the Truth" in November 1965.
  • Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.
  • Citing numerous instances of Pytheas apparently being far off the mark on details concerning known regions, he said: "however, any man who has told such great falsehoods about the known regions would hardly, I imagine, be able to tell the truth about places that are not known to anybody."

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    Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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