lie: translation
•Roman•
I.•/Roman•
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big, big fat (informal), great, monstrous
▪ little
▪ absolute, complete, downright, flat-out (AmE), outright, total
▪ That's a downright lie!
▪ little white, white
▪ A little white lie is surely excusable.
▪ deliberate
▪ bald-faced (AmE), barefaced, blatant, obvious, transparent
▪ elaborate
▪ a web of elaborate lies
▪ outrageous
▪ vicious
VERB + LIE
▪ be
▪ That's a lie—I never said that!
▪ tell (sb)
▪ believe, swallow
▪ How could she swallow such a blatant lie?
▪ expose
▪ live
▪ He lived a lie for thirty years, ‘married’ to two women.
LIE + NOUN
▪ detector
PHRASES
▪ a pack of lies, a tissue of lies, a web of lies
▪ give the lie to sth, put the lie to sth (= prove that something is not true)
▪ spread lies (about sb)
•Roman•
II.•/Roman•
verb
1 be in a flat position
ADVERB
▪ down
▪ He was lying down on the bed.
▪ there
▪ He just lay there smiling.
▪ comfortably, helplessly, limply, peacefully, quietly
PREPOSITION
▪ on
▪ She lay on her stomach.
▪ in
▪ She likes to lie in bed all day.
PHRASES
▪ lie asleep, lie awake
▪ I used to lie awake at night worrying about it.
▪ lie dead, lie unconscious
▪ A man lay dead in the middle of the road.
▪ lie face down, lie prone (formal), lie prostrate (formal)
▪ He was lying face down in the mud.
▪ lie face up, supine (formal)
▪ Lie face up with your feet on the floor.
▪ lie flat
▪ I was lying flat on the floor.
▪ lie motionless, lie still
▪ Lie still while I put the bandage on.
▪ lie naked
▪ She was still lying naked on the bed.
▪ lie sprawled
▪ She lay sprawled on the sofa.
2 say sth that is not true
ADVERB
▪ convincingly
▪ He was unable to lie convincingly.
▪ easily
▪ constantly, repeatedly
▪ blatantly
▪ deliberately, intentionally
▪ completely, outright, totally (all AmE)
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪ She lied about her age.
▪ to
PHRASES
▪ lie through your teeth
▪ lie under oath
Lie is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑challenge, ↑corpse, ↑crux, ↑danger, ↑destiny, ↑difference, ↑difficulty, ↑dilemma, ↑distinction, ↑dust, ↑explanation, ↑farm, ↑fog, ↑greatness, ↑guilt, ↑hair, ↑hand, ↑hope, ↑house, ↑loyalty, ↑mist, ↑remains, ↑route, ↑shadow, ↑snow, ↑success, ↑talent, ↑taste, ↑truth, ↑value, ↑weakness