Honest-to-goodness (Adjective)

Meaning

(used informally especially for emphasis) real or genuine; "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel".

Classification

All adjective clusters.

Usages

• Colloquialism

Examples

• I love this honest-to-goodness home-cooked meal my grandma made for me.
• The honest-to-goodness effort the fire department made saved the house from destruction.
• That honest-to-goodness truck he drove was over 20 years old but still running smoothly.
• The artist is known for his honest-to-goodness landscape paintings that take hours to complete.
• She bought an honest-to-goodness antique vase that's been verified to be over a century old.

Synonyms

• Sure-enough
• Honest-to-god