Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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phrase
A request for the real person or thing to be identified from among others that are similar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, idiomatic
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From the 1950s panel show To Tell the Truth, in which the line was said after votes came in as to who the people thought was the real person they were supposed to find out.
