tell sb a fib
1fib — [n] undetailed lie canard, crock*, equivocation, evasiveness, fabrication, fairy tale*, falsehood, falsity, fiction, invention, jazz*, line*, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, spinach*, story, tale, untruth, untruthfulness, white lie* …
2fib — [fib] 1. n. a small lie. □ It was just a little fib. I’m sorry. □ Is this another one of your fibs? 2. in. to tell a small lie. □ Stop fibbing and tell me the truth. □ …
3Fib — Fib, v. t. To tell a fib to. [R.] De Quincey. [1913 Webster] …
4Fib — Fib, n. [Prob. fr. fable; cf. Prov. E. fibble fabble nonsense.] A falsehood; a lie; used euphemistically. [1913 Webster] They are very serious; they don t tell fibs. H. James. [1913 Webster] …
5fib — ► 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. ↑ …
6fib — [fib] n. [16th & 17th c. slang: said to be clipped form of obs. fible fable, redupl. form of FABLE] a small or trivial lie vi. fibbed, fibbing to tell such a lie or lies SYN. LIE2 fibber n …
7tell lies — tell untruth, fib, speak lies …
8fib — n. to tell a fib * * * [fɪb] to tell a fib …
9fib — fib1 [fıb] n spoken [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Perhaps from fable] a small unimportant lie →↑white lie ▪ He s been known to tell fibs . fib 2 fib2 past tense and past participle fibbed present participle fibbing …
10fib — fib1 [ fıb ] noun count INFORMAL a lie about something that is not important fib fib 2 [ fıb ] verb intransitive INFORMAL to tell a lie about something that is not important …