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                           Phrase(s): Fact is stranger than fiction. [and] Truth is stranger than fiction.  Prov. Things that really happen are harder to believe or more amazing than stories that people invent.  •  Did you see the story in the newspaper about the criminal who attacks people with a toenail clipper? Fact is stranger than fiction!  •  Jill: I can’t believe someone’s paying 900 dollars for Tom’s broken-down old car—it doesn’t even run. Jane: Truth is stranger than fiction.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs