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black is white idiom usually disapproving If someone says or believes black is white, they say or believe something that is completely untrue, especially because this is helpful to them: Ministers still appear on TV telling viewers that black is white. He accused opponents of "running a campaign to say black is white and up is down." If you argue black is white for long enough, people start to believe you. When people can persistently choose to believe black is white, there's not much point in debating. He is quite stubborn and if he decides that black is white, you will struggle to convince him that he is wrong. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith cakeism canard falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction flimflam lie mythologize perjure perjury polygraph someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom weasel words white lie whopper
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