kernel of truth

And the idea held at least a kernel of truth.

And every story, he knew, had at least a kernel of truth.

"But now and then one comes across a kernel of truth."

There was at least a kernel of truth in what I said.

But inside every story there was likely to be a kernel of truth.

There is always a kernel of truth in the stories people tell.

He sees the hard kernel of truth between her words.

How much design can a sweet kernel of truth bear?

Did you think there was not even a kernel of truth to these old tales?

There is a more general kernel of truth in that observation.

Then consider: Is there a kernel of truth in the evaluation?

Like all telling humor, this has a kernel of truth in it.

That's probably a bit unfair, but it's not without a kernel of truth.

There was a kernel of truth in the colonel's joke.

"Attacks must rest on some kernel of truth to be believable."

As with many legends, there is a kernel of truth to the tale.

And while there's a kernel of truth to that, it's not simply champ fat.

There may be a kernel of truth in it.

We need to distill it down to that kernel of truth as to what happened.

So I'm just saying that there's probably a kernel of truth in what you're saying.

"Oh, there's always a kernel of truth in every rumor."

Still, flattery had to contain a kernel of truth in order to work at all.

But the very thing that made it possible for them to come this far is the kernel of truth amid their lies.

But a bigger question is whether he recognised a kernel of truth.

But it does contain a growing kernel of truth.