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To be honest 

Implies that the speaker usually lies, but will be honest this one time. Yeah right.
To be honest, I think you're really good at soccer. Really.
To be honest by domokato April 23, 2009
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To be Honest 

an incredibly over-used refuge for the inarticulate to máke a point of statement.Can be used in any sentence as long as you agree with yourself.
i really don't like to stick pineapples up my arse...to be honest. But have you tried a cucumber?
To be Honest by moose head May 7, 2005

To be honest 

The crutch of a idiot who uses it to append declarative sentences in order to sound more authoritative.
To be honest, I really have no idea what I'm talking about and use cliches where smarter people use original thought.
To be honest by Tom Hefner March 12, 2011

to be honest 

Absolutely pointless statement, that adds nothing to any conversation it is included in. Used by dumbasses to sound "smarter" or "prove a point".

Also see: to be frank, frankly, honestly
to be honest by hi, my name is Name September 8, 2007

to be honest 

The phrase "to be honest" is often used as a filler which makes a sentence run on. It is often perceived that one who uses such phrase implies that they often are not honest, so they feel the need to say "to be honest" when they actually are being honest.
To be honest, I didn't do it! I swear!
to be honest by Astro_Chris September 3, 2014

To Be Honest 

To Be Honest ur really really pretty and ummmm.... I think in fourth grade I said hi to u once
To Be Honest by BigBLittleD January 2, 2015
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to be completely honest 

Filler phrase so you can quick come up with a random statement. Often followed by a very unthoughtful statement that the person did not in fact mean to say.

Other ways it can be used is if you are in fact trying to be honest.
1. To be completely honest, I really think you complain too much... Wait I didn't phrase that right!

2. Gavin-To be completely honest, saltwater is actually okay to drink large amounts of.

Mike-Actually that is false

Gavin-Well I guess it is a difference of opinion.
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West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.
Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!
grebo by cactuscat September 15, 2006
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