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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