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Discover LudwigThe phrase "lying through their teeth" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is being dishonest or deceitful.
Example: "When he claimed he had no involvement in the scandal, I knew he was lying through his teeth."
Alternatives: "being dishonest" or "telling blatant lies."
Idiom
Lie through your teeth.
Someone who is always lying, regardless of what people know, lies through their teeth.
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They are lying through their teeth.
"Everything they told us made sense," she said, "but they were lying through their teeth.
"If anyone tells you that what happened doesn't have any effect, they are lying through their teeth".
"Well, the reports that we've heard out of the region have been absolutely lying through their teeth, week after week after week, throughout the whole thing," he said.
He said government witnesses who testified about kickbacks and an effort by the congressman to influence grand jury testimony were "lying through their teeth".
And they implied that the only domestic surveillance taking place involved tapping phone calls in which one speaker was outside the U.S. Drake says of Bush Administration officials, "They were lying through their teeth.
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"And naturally they'll lie through their teeth".
They can try to change the facts and try to rewrite history and try to lie through their teeth, but they can't shove that down my throat.
When Brian Rose, vice president for student affairs, spoke to students last week, he predicted that investigating facts and sanctioning organizations would be difficult because "nobody is going to tell us anything, and most people that say something to us are just going to lie through their teeth".
Excited!! yfrog.com/esnp9znj December 16 , 20127.24pm GMT Ouch Reader Dan Lucas asks: Would it be cynical to suggest that tonight represents the last chance for 99% of the British public to lie through their teeth and convince anyone who will listen that they're still interested in any of the Olympic sports?
"You can bet your life that the same basic mistakes made by the government and its officials on the west coast tender have been made on other franchises as the private sector lie through their teeth with the sole intention of robbing us blind.
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