英语词汇“thesaurus_put-something-about-around”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

lie
All she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says.

tell a lie
I cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree.

lie through your teeth
informal
He 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.

fib
informal
I don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful.

mislead
I'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married.

delude
He's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion.

invent
There's no need to invent excuses for not going - just decline the invitation.

concoct
She concocted the wildest stories to get out of attending class.

feed someone a line
disapproving
He fed me some line about how his dog was sick and cancelled our date.

make something up
You never met The Beatles! You're just making that up.

fabricate
The suspects admited to having fabricated their alibis on the night of the robbery and were charged with grand theft.

distort
Reporters have distorted the facts of the case so badly, and influenced the jury through their bad reporting, that the judge has declared a mistrial.

twist
disapproving
She accused her opponent of twisting the truth about her time in Parliament.

misrepresent
I have been misrepresented by my opponent as a socialist when nothing could be further from the truth.

stretch the truth
I have published a book that sold very well, but it's stretching the truth to say that I was on the best-seller lists.
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If you lie, you say something that is untrue in order to deceive someone.

put something about/around

TO SAY SOMETHING NOT TRUE IN ORDER TO DECEIVE

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