Nugget Of Truth Meaning

Example : January 2008, Chicago Tribune - Clinton's Hispanic edge over Obama  Unfortunately, there is a nugget of truth to the notion of black and Hispanic tensions but, like politics, the friction tends to be very local.2003, Henry Cloud - Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know - Page 286  This book identifies twelve teachings that sound plausible because they each contain a nugget of truth1989, Walter A. Goffart - Rome's Fall and After p.59  Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage.