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tissue of lies
A number of false statements made to deliberately hide the truth. After the human resources manager performed a background check on the new applicant, she realized his resume was a tissue of lies.
a pack of lies
also a tissue of lies (formal) a story that someone has invented in order to deceive people He dismissed recent rumours that he'd had affairs with a number of women as 'a pack of lies'. The entire account of where she'd been and who she'd been with that night was a tissue of lies.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Estelle | | es-TEL | English, French |
Melvin | | MEL-vin | English |
Pollard | | ['pɔləd] | |
Clemente | | kle-MEN-te (Italian, Spanish) | Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
HỮU | | - | Vietnamese |
Itziar | | - | Basque, Spanish |