speak truth to power
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Etymology
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Verb
[edit]speak truth to power (third-person singular simple present speaks truth to power, present participle speaking truth to power, simple past spoke truth to power, past participle spoken truth to power)
- To address facts to an authority or a superior.
- 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker[1], →ISSN:
- He was tired of corporate politics and craved a setting where people spoke truth to power, but, he said, it took him a while to get used to dealing with Dalio.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:speak truth to power.
References
[edit]- “speak truth to power”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.