"honest-to-goodness" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more honest-to-goodness",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most honest-to-goodness",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Is the clam chowder made with honest-to-goodness clams?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 (republished 2010), Joseph Heller, Catch-22, London: Vintage Books, ISBN 978-0-09-955218-5, page 22",
          "text": "[']I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.' 'Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, John Rogers, Clara Nickerson Boden, The Cut of Her Jib, page 82",
          "text": "Captain Mark heard about it; and dropped in after school to commend his protege. \"Young lady, that's the most honest-to-goodness useful thing I ever heard hail from a schoolroom!\"",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Real; genuine."
      ],
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        "(attributive only) Real; genuine."
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "honest-to-goodness"
}

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      "expansion": "honest-to-goodness (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "word": "honest to goodness"
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        "Alternative form of honest to goodness"
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        {
          "word": "real McCoy"
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  ],
  "word": "honest-to-goodness"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more honest-to-goodness",
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        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most honest-to-goodness",
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        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "Is the clam chowder made with honest-to-goodness clams?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 (republished 2010), Joseph Heller, Catch-22, London: Vintage Books, ISBN 978-0-09-955218-5, page 22",
          "text": "[']I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.' 'Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, John Rogers, Clara Nickerson Boden, The Cut of Her Jib, page 82",
          "text": "Captain Mark heard about it; and dropped in after school to commend his protege. \"Young lady, that's the most honest-to-goodness useful thing I ever heard hail from a schoolroom!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "Real; genuine."
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        "(attributive only) Real; genuine."
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    }
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  "word": "honest-to-goodness"
}

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