ring true

ring true
ring true
Fig. to sound or seem true or likely. (From testing the quality of metal or glass by striking it and evaluating the sound made.) •

The student's excuse for being late doesn't ring true.

Do you think that Mary's explanation for her absence rang true?

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{v. phr.} To have a tone of genuineness; sound convincing. * /I believed his sob story about how he lost his fortune, because somehow it all rang true./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • ring true — {v. phr.} To have a tone of genuineness; sound convincing. * /I believed his sob story about how he lost his fortune, because somehow it all rang true./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

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