Lying Phrases

Phrases

• As you make your bed so must you lie on it
• Bald-faced lie
• Bare-faced lie
• Bear false witness
• Don't take it lying down
• False alarm
• False dawn
• False friends
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• False memory syndrome
• False modesty
• False pretences
• False prophet
• Give the lie to
• He just wouldn't let it lie
• Hips Don't Lie (Shakira with Wyclef Jean song)
• I cannot tell a lie
• I tell a lie
• If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
• Let sleeping dogs lie
• Lie back and think of England
• Lie doggo
• Lie down on the job
• Lie down with dogs: get up with fleas
• Lie fallow
• Lie in
• Lie in state
• Lie in wait
• Lie like a trooper
• Lie low
• Lie through his teeth
• Little white lie
• Live a lie
• Love the Way You Lie (Eminem with Rihanna song)
• Lulled into a false sense of security
• Make your bed and lie in it
• Nail a lie
• Ring false
• Sailing under false colours
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• The camera doesn't lie
• The lie of the land
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est (from a poem by Owen)
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• You made your bed, now lie in it