give color to

[give color to] or [lend color to] {v. phr.}

To make (something) seem true or likely.

* /The boy's torn clothes gave color to his story of a fight./

* /The way the man ate lent color to his story of near starvation./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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