VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Facts of life

Meaning:

the details about sex and reproduction.

Examples:

  • As usual, I am trying to present the grim facts of life.
  • I hope that the Irish presidency will devote time and energy to explaining these facts of life to the British Government.
  • When I start bothering your Daddy, even worse, robbing a cradle, I gotta face the facts of life.
  • The harsh facts of life, especially for the children living under the occupation, will bear negatively not only on them when they enter adulthood but also on the prospects for peace in the Middle East.
  • Therefore, let us learn to accept the facts of life.
  • Someday I have to tell you the facts of life.
  • But there are also certain strategic facts of life.
  • It is just one of those facts of life.
  • We still have to discuss the facts of life.
  • Living with the facts of life is innocence.