putsomethingabout/around
phrasal verbwithputverbuk/pʊt/us/pʊt/present participleputting|past tense and past participleput
UKinformaltotella lot ofpeoplesomething that is nottrue:
[+ that]I'd like toknowwho put therumouraroundthatI'mpregnant.
Someone's been puttingitaboutthatDan isleaving.
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.
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- a pack of liesidiom
- artifice
- bad faith
- black is whiteidiom
- cakeism
- canard
- falsehood
- falsification
- feedsomeonea lineidiom
- fib
- fiction
- lie
- mistruth
- myth
- mythologically
- mythologize
- venality
- weasel words
- white lie
- whopper