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Example sentences for: honest-to-goodness

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But the N.C.A.A. is concerned only with breaches of its recruiting and academic rules, not with honest-to-goodness crime.
Hottest spot in the region, down by the American border, is Osoyoos, nestling in the mountains around a good swimming lake and pocket-sized but honest-to-goodness desert complete with cactus, sagebrush, rattlesnakes, coyotes, and horned toads.
As a genuine honest-to-goodness Son of a Preacher Man, I feel qualified to say that I don't think Jesus is standing at the gates of Paradise shouting down "Send More Dead Babies!"