- little white lie
- a little white lieFig. a small, usually harmless lie; a fib. •
Every little white lie you tell is still a lie and it is still meant to mislead people.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
little white lie
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little white lie — See white lie … English idioms
white lie — noun an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite) • Hypernyms: ↑lie, ↑prevarication * * * a minor, polite, or harmless lie; fib. * * * white lie A minor falsehood, esp one uttered for reasons of tact, etc • • • Main Entry:… … Useful english dictionary
white lie — Synonyms and related words: blague, cock and bull story, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, half truth, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity,… … Moby Thesaurus
white lie — {n. phr.} An innocent social excuse. * /I am too busy to go to their house for dinner tonight. I will call them and tell a little white lie about having the flu./ … Dictionary of American idioms
white lie — {n. phr.} An innocent social excuse. * /I am too busy to go to their house for dinner tonight. I will call them and tell a little white lie about having the flu./ … Dictionary of American idioms
white lie — noun A deliberate, untrue statement which does no harm or is intended to produce a favorable result. An occasional little white lie such as Westons probably wont cause any lasting damage. And at times, telling the truth particularly the whole… … Wiktionary
white\ lie — n. phr. An innocent social excuse. I am too busy to go to their house for dinner tonight. I will call them and tell a little white lie about having the flu … Словарь американских идиом
little white — adj. Little white is used with these nouns: ↑lie … Collocations dictionary
lie — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, big fat (informal), great, monstrous ▪ He told a big fat lie! ▪ little ▪ … Collocations dictionary
lie — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. prevaricate, falsify, deceive; recline, rest, be situated; extend. See falsehood, deception, location, horizontal. Ant., fact, truth. lie detector II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An intentional… … English dictionary for students
lie — I n 1. falsehood, untruth, prevarication, fib, white lie, little white lie, quibble, Inf. taradiddle; equivocation, evasion, fencing, Euph. departure from the truth; falsity, fiction, falsification, invention, concoction, fabrication, half truth … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
