fact is stranger than fiction
- fact is stranger than fiction
An alliterative version of TRUTH is stranger than fiction.
1853 T. C. HALIBURTON Sam Slick’s Wise Saws 5 Facts are stranger than fiction, for things happen sometimes that never entered into the mind of man to imagine or invent.
1881 A. JESSOPP Arcady for Better or Worse iii. I have no desire to convince the world that..in this..case fact is stranger than fiction. But the following instance of Mr. Chowne’s ‘cunning’ may be verified.
1929 E. J. MILLWARD Copper Bottle 64 Facts may be stranger than fiction,..but fiction is generally truer than facts.
1980 Christian Science Monitor 30 May B3 Some of the research seems almost eerie to the outsider, covering some genuine fact-is-stranger-than-fiction ground.
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fact is stranger than fiction — things that occur in real life are often stranger than those that are made up … English contemporary dictionary
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