| 词汇 | pack of lies |
| 释义 | pack of lies Theme: DECEPTION n. a whole collection or series of lies.I've heard you talk about this before, and it's all a pack of lies.Her story is nothing but a pack of lies. Idiom pack 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. pack of liesA 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 pack of lies. I didn't do anything they said I did. It's all a pack of lies! pack of liesa series of lies. The thief told a pack of lies to cover up the crime. John listened to Bill's pack of lies about the fight and became very angry. a ˌpack of ˈlies(informal) a lot of lies told at the same time: The police discovered that her story was a pack of lies.He told me a pack of lies when I asked him about previous jobs.pack of lies n. a whole collection or series of lies. I’ve heard you talk about this before, and it’s all a pack of lies. pack of lies, aAn elaborate fabrication. This phrase uses pack in the sense of a large collection of abstract objects, and, as it has been since Shakespeare’s time, in a disparaging sense. Thomas Jefferson used it in a letter of 1763: “Would you rather that I should write you a pack of lies?” A closely related expression is a tissue of lies. It uses tissue in the figurative sense of a woven fabric—that is, an intricate intertwining of separate elements, similarly abstract. |
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