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1) General subject: tell a falsehood, tell a lie2) Colloquial: fib3) Jargon: Blowing Smoke, bull4) Makarov: tell lies5) Phraseological unit: blow smoke -
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жен.fairy tale; tale, story; fibэто сказки! разг. — don't tell me tales!
рассказывать сказки — to tell stories, to tell tall tales
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1) General subject: be inaccurate, lie, make a mistake, tell2) Colloquial: fib4) Australian slang: dud5) Jargon: bunco bunko, guff goff, shoot (the) bull, sling it, BSing (Example: I was "BSing" when I said I was running for political office.), tell porkies, gum, jazz, jive, talk through (one's) hat6) Invective: chicken shit, crap, shovel the shit, crock of shit7) Makarov: hand out a line of bull -
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прост.lie, fable, fib; tell tall stories, tell fibs; cf. draw (pull) a longbow- Папа, мы волка видели! - Волка? - Матвей вяло усмехнулся: Венька, истый сын охотника, любил заправлять арапа. - Может, хоть собаку? (Ф. Абрамов, Братья и сестры) — 'Dad, we've just seen a wolf!' 'A wolf?' Matvei made a sour face. Venka, a true son of a hunter, liked to pull a long bow. 'Perhaps a dog?'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > заправлять арапа
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1) General subject: confabulate, contrive, devise, excogitate, fabricate, feign, fib, forge, invent, make believe, mint, romance, romanticize, tell stories, trump, trump up, (быть склонным) draw on imagination, make sth. up (I have seen them and so have my neighbours. We are not making all this up. - Мы ничего не выдумываем.), make up out of one's head3) Ironical: extemporize4) Literal: hammer out5) Diplomatic term: concoct6) Makarov: imagine, make up, draw on imagination, dream up -
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1) General subject: adorn, embellish, fib, pitch a tale to pitch a fork, pitch a yarn, pitch the fork, pull the long bow, romanticize, tell fibs, to broider (on, one's) stories, (быть склонным) draw on imagination, draw the long bow2) Jargon: fudge3) Makarov: draw on imagination, embroider on stories, embroider stories
См. также в других словарях:
Fib — Fib, v. t. To tell a fib to. [R.] De Quincey. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fib — ► NOUN ▪ a trivial lie. ► VERB (fibbed, fibbing) ▪ tell a fib. DERIVATIVES fibber noun. ORIGIN perhaps from obsolete fible fable nonsense , a reduplication of FABLE(Cf. ↑ … English terms dictionary
tell lies — tell untruth, fib, speak lies … English contemporary dictionary
fib — n. to tell a fib * * * [fɪb] to tell a fib … Combinatory dictionary
fib — fib1 [fıb] n spoken [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Perhaps from fable] a small unimportant lie →↑white lie ▪ He s been known to tell fibs . fib 2 fib2 past tense and past participle fibbed present participle fibbing … Dictionary of contemporary English
fib — [[t]fɪb[/t]] n. v. fibbed, fib•bing 1) a small or trivial lie 2) to tell a fib • Etymology: 1560–70; fibble fable nonsense fib′ber, fib′ster, n … From formal English to slang
fib — I. /fɪb / (say fib) Colloquial –noun 1. a trivial falsehood. –verb (i) (fibbed, fibbing) 2. to tell a fib. {shortened form of fibble fable, reduplication of fable} II. /fɪb / (say fib) verb (t) (fibbed, fibbing) …
fib — 1. noun a) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. Youve been telling fibs again, havent you? b) Short form of fibula. 2. verb To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. Syn: tell a fib, tell … Wiktionary
fib — fibber, fibster, n. /fib/, n., v., fibbed, fibbing. n. 1. a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood. v.i. 2. to tell a fib. [1560 70; short for fibble fable nonsense, gradational compound based on FABLE] Syn. 1. See falsehood. * * * … Universalium
fib — I. noun Etymology: perhaps by shortening & alteration from fable Date: 1611 a trivial or childish lie II. intransitive verb (fibbed; fibbing) Date: 1675 to tell a fib Synonyms: see lie • fibber noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
fib — noun a trivial lie. verb (fibs, fibbing, fibbed) tell a fib. Derivatives fibber noun Origin C16: perh. a shortening of obs. fible fable nonsense , reduplication of fable … English new terms dictionary