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Originally Posted by exitwound
yeah. "to be honest" is a setup for what's coming, an emphasis that you're being honest even if it's going to hurt their feelings.
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Originally Posted by gprsh924
This is how I use it. I am not implying that anything I said before was anything less than the truth, just that this current statement might be painful.
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Originally Posted by jeffgrant
I generally take it to be a shortened version of "to be BRUTALLY honest", in other words, "prepare yourself to hear some stuff that you're not going to like".
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This is how I use it also... but then my dad taught me "if you always tell the truth you don't have to keep track of what you said."