Is there any truth to something?

Is there any truth to something?
Is there any truth to something?
Is something true?; Is what I have heard true? (

no truth to

in the negative.) •

Is there any truth to the gossip that Harry is leaving school?

No, there is no truth to that at all.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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