white lie, a harmless lie usually to avoid hurting somebody's feelings, talk through your hat, talk as though you're an expert but you have no idea, stretch the truth, exaggerate and and embellish facts without actually lying, lie through your teeth, tell an obvious lie without feeling bad about it, to cry wolf, give a false alarm (later it's difficult to believe you), get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, get caught in the act of doing something bad, cover your tracks, hide evidence of your wrongdoing, dodge the truth, avoid answering the question and lying, come clean, admit the truth

Lying Idioms

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