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lie through your teeth
idiom informal
to tell someone something that you know is completely false: 说谎话;睁眼说瞎话
He asked me how old I was and, lying through my teeth, I said "29".他问我多大了，我骗他说是29岁。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to say something not true in order to deceive
lieAll she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says.
tell a lieI cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree.
lie through your teethHe lied through his teeth that he didn't go to the cinema, though he was still holding the ticket stub in his hand as he said it.
fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful.
misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married.
deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsehood
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
lie
mythologize
perjure
perjury
polygraph
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper
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