I tell a lie
mainly UKDefinition
› something you say when you have just said something wrong and want to correct it: Her name is Paula, no, I tell a lie (= I'm wrong) - it's Pauline.Correcting and mendingEditing and compiling
(Definition of I tell a lie from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Accurate and exact
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- Balance and imbalance
- Being suitable or unsuitable
- Faults and mistakes
- Inconvenience
- Justice and fairness
- Making mistakes
- Matching and co-ordinating
- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
- Reality and truth
- Suitable and acceptable
- True, real, false, and unreal
- Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- Unreal things and unreality
- Unspoilt
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- Wanting everything to be right
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Synonyms and related words:
- clean sth up phrasal verb (CRIME)
- correction noun (CHANGE)
- fiddle (about/around) with sth phrasal verb
- fine-tune verb
- fix sth up phrasal verb (REPAIR)
- mend verb
- patch verb (PIECE OF MATERIAL)
- put/set sb right idiom
- reconstruct verb
- reconstruction noun
- refine verb
- refinement noun (CHANGE)
- refit verb
- remedy verb
- revised adjective
- troubleshooting noun
- tune (sth) up phrasal verb (ENGINE)
- tune verb (ENGINE)
- under repair idiom
- work on sth phrasal verb
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