"à dire vrai" meaning in French

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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "english": "Modern medicine was sincerely puzzled by the fact that this adipose, sedentary man had survived to the age of eighty-three.",
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          "text": "À dire vrai, que ce sédentaire adipeux ait survécu jusqu’à l’âge de quatre-vingt-trois ans rendait perplexe la médecine moderne.",
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          "à vrai dire#French"
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      "ipa": "/a diʁ vʁɛ/"
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  "word": "à dire vrai"
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          "text": "À dire vrai, que ce sédentaire adipeux ait survécu jusqu’à l’âge de quatre-vingt-trois ans rendait perplexe la médecine moderne.",
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  "word": "à dire vrai"
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