facts of life

[facts of life] {n. phr.}

1. The truth which we should know about sex, marriage, and births.

* /His father told him the facts of life when he was old enough./

2. The truths one learns about people and their good and bad habits of life, work or play.

* /As a cub reporter he would learn the facts of life in the newspaper world./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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