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feed someone a line
idiom disapproving
to tell someone something that is not completely true, often as an excuse: 以不实之词欺骗，向…提供虚报情况
She fed me a line about not having budgeted for pay increases this year.她骗我说今年的预算中没有涨工资这一项。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to say something not true in order to deceive
lieAll she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says.
tell a lieI cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree.
lie through your teethHe 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.
fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful.
misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married.
deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsehood
falsification
fib
fiction
flimflam
lie
mythologize
perjure
perjury
polygraph
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper
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