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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a plain lie" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to an untrue statement that is stated in a straightforward and direct manner. For example, "I'm not surprised that Ed told you he liked you - it was a plain lie."
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If not, it was just a plain lie.
It is just a plain lie that Catalan GDP and taxes would remain the same.
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A flat plain lies a few miles inland, and the main routes tend to be built there while the back roads near the shore plunge and twist and swerve.
It is a great plain lying in the basin of the Duero River, which crosses it from east to west.
A narrow coastal plain lies between the Cristal Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.
It extends westward from Hudson Bay to the Great Slave and Great Bear lakes, northward to the Arctic Ocean, and southward along the Hudson Bay coastal plain and consists of a low, glaciated, treeless plain lying below 1,000 feet (300 metres) in elevation.
Stretching from north to south, the plain lies at a low elevation above sea level.
The alluvial plain lies at an elevation of 700 to 900 feet (210 to 270 metres) and is drained by only one perennial river, the Yamuna, located on the state's eastern border.
Carney's initial denials of interest in the job were not, as has been reported in some places, what Winston Churchill (a former chancellor) called "terminological inexactitudes", or plain lies.
Nearly the entire North German Plain lies less than 330 feet (100 m) above sea level.
The Cayes Plain lies on the coast to the southeast of the peak.
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