tell sb a fib
21fib — [fɪb] verb [I] informal to tell a lie about something that is not important fib noun [C] …
22fib — n. & v. n. a trivial or venial lie. v.intr. (fibbed, fibbing) tell a fib. Derivatives: fibber n. fibster n. Etymology: perh. f. obs. fible fable nonsense, redupl. of FABLE …
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 …
27lie# — lie vb Lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth directly or indirectly. Lie is the straightforward word, flatly imputing dishonesty to the speaker {he lies, and he knows he lies Johnson} {the article . . . has… …
28lie — I 1. noun loyalty had made him tell lies Syn: untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, invention, fiction, piece of fiction, falsification; (little) white lie, half truth, exaggeration; informal tall tale, whopper, taradiddle Ant: truth …
29lie — I 1. noun it was a lie Syn: untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, invention, (piece of) fiction, falsification, white lie; informal tall story, whopper; humorous terminological inexactitude Ant: truth 2. verb he had lied to the police …
30fibber — 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. ↑ …
