What does honest-to-gods mean?

honest-to-gods

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English

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"He was an honest-to-gods sport fan."
"[…] night of Dec. 3 or 4, was the honest-to-Gods truth. Like I informed you, I was in our bathroom for a period of fifteen (15) or twenty (20) minutes. I then heard strange sound , similar to one that is made when a child or individual, fires a cap pistol in a […]"

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