them's the facts

== English == === Pronunciation === === Phrase === them's the facts (idiomatic, colloquial) Those are the facts, that's the truth, that's how it is. 1911, Vaughan Kester, “Law at Balaam's Cross-roads”, in The Prodigal Judge, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 284963; republished Fairfield, Ind.: 1st World Library Literary Society, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4218-1813-9, page 44: The boy was left with Bob Yancy mainly because nobody else would take him. Them's the facts. Now go on! ==== Usage notes ==== The phrase is frequently used in reference to an unfortunate truth. While the uses of them as a subject pronoun and of 's with a plural subject are mainly found only in a few nonstandard dialects, they appear in other dialects in certain fixed colloquialisms such as this one, as what might be called “intentionally incorrect” speech.