"Really and truly" nghĩa là gì?

"Really and truly" nghĩa là thực sự, không nghi ngờ gì nữa. Cụm từ xuất phát từ thể kỷ 18, tác giả Thomas Macaulay từng sử dụng trong cuốn The History of England (1849), có câu “The king is really and truly a Catholic.”

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"I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and I’ve never, ever not wanted to go to work," said owner Chip Heuisler. "I really, truly love what I do and consider myself incredibly lucky to make my living this way.”

“He really, really truly believed that New York was a gorgeous mosaic (bức khảm) and it could even become more gorgeous,” said Douglas Muzzio, a former Dinkins campaign worker. “That was his raison d’être (lẽ sống).”

I was insane in the here and now. There was no future, just the impenetrable (không thể xuyên thủng) darkness inside a rock. For once and for all I was really and truly going to miss someone when they were gone.

“The current condition we’re in is not because of the schools,” Toledo-Lucas County Health Commissioner Eric Zgodzinski said during a special board meeting Wednesday. “It really truly is the nature of the disease and the things we may not have done as a community, as a state, and as a nation prior to today.” 

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