"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
(14) plausible, convincing
Kolokacji: 2
(15) grave, dangerous, harmless
Kolokacji: 3
(16) damnable, damn, Damned
Kolokacji: 3
(17) key, necessary
Kolokacji: 2
1. key lie = kluczowe kłamstwo key lie
2. necessary lie = niezbędne kłamstwo necessary lie
  • Especially when it came to telling necessary lies.
  • Anyway, very difficult to prove anything so long as the family stick together and if necessary lie like hell.
  • But it was a necessary lie that parents and older siblings had to tell if we were ever to lose our fears.
  • Ironically, one of the most necessary lies we tell our children is you must never lie.
  • He thought of the necessary lies he had told his mother.
  • She had half a mile in which to invent the necessary lies.
  • I knew that I was now capable of mustering any necessary lie at will.
  • To his mind it was a very necessary lie.
  • No honest person would cooperate in telling her the necessary lie.
  • It is the justification of a misdirected life, the fulfillment of a necessary lie.
(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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