home truth

1. 1.

   an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)

   Broadertruth

Questions about home truth

What does home truth mean?

home truth means "an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself)".

Is home truth a common word?

home truth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.