English Explanatory Dictionary

truth is stranger than fiction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb

Sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones.

Word forms

truth is stranger than fiction fact is stranger than fiction

Etymology

Attributed to Lord Byron.

Related words

life imitates art straight out of Black Mirror

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