ring of authenticity

English

Noun

ring of authenticity (plural not attested)

1. Alternative form of ring of truth

   The letter lacked the ring of authenticity that would settle her doubts.

   • 1878, Hertfordshire Mercury:

     ...but newspaper readers now-a-days are pretty well able to discriminate between items of news that have the true ring of authenticity about them...

   • 1962, Margaret Laurence, “Ring of authenticity”, in Canadian Literature‎^[1]:

     The inner workings of government, of newspapers, of the law, and even of merchant ships and the dockside — these details have the ring of authenticity.