Honesty is preferable as a course of action because it tends to work out best in the end.

Alternative form of give it one's best shot

(idiomatic) Six strokes with a cane, a traditional school punishment.

A person who is an especially close and trusted friend over a long period of time.

to make like a beast / to bring or reduce to the state or condition of a beast

(archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.

superlative form of well-built: most well-built

To do as best one can.

Alternative form of to one's knowledge

plural of best-seller