"lie" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

lie sustantivo

lie + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 7
Lie group • Lie algebra • lie detector • lie detector test • lie detection • ...
lie + verbo
Kolokacji: 7
lie comes • lie says • lie tells • lie makes • lie goes • ...
verbo + lie
Kolokacji: 12
tell lies • believe one's lies • give the lie • spread lies • hear lies • ...
adjetivo + lie
Kolokacji: 84
big lie • white lie • outright lie • future lie • little lie • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 22
(2) white, single
Kolokacji: 2
(3) outright, flat
Kolokacji: 2
(4) future, old, flat-out
Kolokacji: 3
(5) True, direct, plain
Kolokacji: 3
(9) secret, magic
Kolokacji: 2
(10) bald-faced, barefaced
Kolokacji: 2
(12) elaborate, fantastic
Kolokacji: 2
1. elaborate lie = skomplikowane kłamstwo elaborate lie
  • See, your tidy-looking floors are an elaborate and dangerous lie!
  • How could a 16-year-old concoct such an elaborate lie and maintain it so long?
  • His most common method of picking up women is telling them elaborate lies about himself, often using an alias.
  • Promises are no more than elaborate lies," she declared.
  • They were complicated, in many respects obscure, and overlaid during the years that followed by ever more elaborate lies.
  • So far the elaborate lie had moved the haberdasher to do nothing except sniff in boredom.
  • He opened his eyes and saw the truth that he had hidden with a thousand elaborate lies.
  • His elaborate lies and maneuvers were hardly necessary at all.
  • When would she be forced to tell him the truth ... or make up an elaborate lie?
  • He shouldn't have had to risk an elaborate lie and claim he never even spoke with her.
2. fantastic lie = fantastyczne kłamstwo fantastic lie
(14) plausible, convincing
Kolokacji: 2
(15) grave, dangerous, harmless
Kolokacji: 3
(16) damnable, damn, Damned
Kolokacji: 3
(17) key, necessary
Kolokacji: 2
(19) polite, noble
Kolokacji: 2
(20) stupid, clever, clumsy
Kolokacji: 3
(21) bare-faced, bold-faced
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + lie
Kolokacji: 10
of lies • with lies • to lies • on lies • in a lie • ...

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