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Many a true word is spoken in jest.

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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Please tell the origin of the idiom.Thank you!
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Meaning
A literal meaning; that the truth is often found in comic utterances.
Origin
The first author to express this thought in English was probably Geoffrey Chaucer.He included it in The Cook's Tale,1390:
But yet I pray thee be not wroth for game; [don't be angry with my jesting]
A man may say full sooth [the truth] in game and play.
Shakespeare later came closer to our contemporary version of the expression,in King Lear,1605:
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
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