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honest-to-goodness

adj

Definitions

  1. Real

    Real; genuine.

    • Is the clam chowder made with honest-to-goodness clams?
    • [']I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.' 'Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected.
    • At first glance, Lincoln seemed caught in a time warp—a place of 1930s tourist cabins and Mom-and-Pop diners where one could get honest-to-goodness milk shakes, made in a blender with real ice cream.

  2. Alternative form of honest to goodness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for honest-to-goodness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA