tell a fib
21tell — verb 1 give sb information ADVERB ▪ bluntly, curtly, flatly ▪ She told me bluntly it was my own fault. ▪ gravely, seriously ▪ smugly …
22fib — [fɪb] verb [I] informal to tell a lie about something that is not important fib noun [C] …
23fib — 1 noun (C) spoken a small unimportant lie : tell fibs: Don t tell fibs! 2 verb fibbed, fibbing (I) spoken to tell a small unimportant lie: I think you re fibbing. fibber noun (C) …
24fib — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. white lie. See falsehood. Ant., truth. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. prevarication, fabrication, misrepresentation, white lie; see lie 1 . v. Syn. prevaricate, fabricate, misrepresent; see lie 1 . See… …
25fib — Synonyms and related words: be untruthful, blague, bouncer, canard, cock and bull story, concoct, deceive, draw the longbow, equivocate, equivocation, evasiveness, exaggerate, exaggeration, fabricate, fairy tale, falsehood, falsify, falsity,… …
26fib — I. n. (Colloq. and euphemistic.) Lie, falsehood, intentional untruth. II. v. n. (Colloq. and euphemistic.) Lie, tell a lie …
27fibber — fib ► NOUN ▪ a trivial lie. ► VERB (fibbed, fibbing) ▪ tell a fib. DERIVATIVES fibber noun. ORIGIN perhaps from obsolete fible fable nonsense , a reduplication of FABLE(Cf. ↑ …
28spread lies — tell untruths, tell lies, fib …
29straight face — {n.} A face that is not laughing or smiling. * /Mary told all the funny stories she knew to try to make Joan laugh, but Joan kept a straight face./ * /It is hard to tell when Jim is teasing you. He can tell a fib with a straight face./ * /When… …
30straight face — {n.} A face that is not laughing or smiling. * /Mary told all the funny stories she knew to try to make Joan laugh, but Joan kept a straight face./ * /It is hard to tell when Jim is teasing you. He can tell a fib with a straight face./ * /When… …
