That meant lying flat on my back while talking on the phone, taking notes until the ink ran out.
The independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, who almost managed to drive Clinton from office, once declared of the president's transgression (to reporters, while carrying out his trash), "You cannot defile the temple of justice," by which he narrowly meant lying in a legal proceeding, namely a civil suit brought by one Paula Jones, and more broadly meant lying, period.
The word means "lying in a plane; two-dimensional".
I'm partial to a culture that uses the phrase "telling a story" to mean "lying".
Let me quote Kozinski at length: Saints may always tell the truth, but for mortals living means lying.
Psychoanalysis doesn't mean lying on a couch, it doesn't mean coming in five times a week, and it doesn't even mean free association.
When a committee member referred to the "collective amnesia" of his executives, he riposted, "you mean lying" and he was right.
And you may punch him once or twice for his mean lies".
In experiment 2, the total lying time, frequency of lying bouts, and mean lying bout duration were, on average, 9.7 ± 1.03 h/d, 8.2 ± 0.93 bouts/d, and 1.2 ± 0.06 h/bout, respectively, and did not differ between treatments.
It means lying awake at night worrying about running out of cash and having a constant knot in your stomach during the day fearing you'll disappoint the few people who believed in you and validate your smug doubters.
