High tech may not be the only place where a little fibbing can go a long way.

For a while, they stopped their childish fibbing, but now there had come a new eruption.

I thought we had cured you of that sort of trivial fibbing.

Riker said, "Qwill was always a master of creative fibbing."

And I gave them hell because I couldn't take a little fibbing."

But at least he's been consistent about any fibbing, which suggests the truth lies somewhere in between.)

They produce a newspaper, The Happy Camper, and it probably has less fibbing than you'd find in most house organs.

I don't like unnecessary fibbing."

Whatever her reasoning, I was greatly shocked that a woman of her achievements and reputation should stoop to such shabby fibbing.

"Fibbing's bad," Marcie said softly.

The Fairy, knowing of his constant fibbing, tells him that there are two types of lies: those with short legs and those with long noses.

Scarlett is still the irrepressible vixen, dismissing one scheme after another as mere fibbing, and confronting any pending crisis with an airy "fiddledeedee."

As millions of Americans prepare to drop their tax returns in the mail tonight - 11th-hour filers make up perhaps a fifth of the nation's 174 million taxpayers - there are mounting questions about just how much fibbing is going on.

What we got was this: Although the lender had a letter from my wife's employer saying that, yes, they had hired her and, yes, they would be paying her, too, it wanted another letter, this one promising, with sugar on top, that she really had the job, no fibbing.

But we reserve the right to meet a threat to the social structure in any feasible way, up to and including the mass annihilation of hostile forces, which I think you will regard as a more serious action than a little fibbing, and which this government has resorted to on more than one occasion.

Tell a fib and you go red in the face.

Was my fib going to get me in hot water?

You mean that story about the king's head being cut off is a fib?

The fib, one of many, came to light after he died, at age 82.

The lady has just told the police a great big fib, remember?

But he was as easy to catch in a fib.

Comment: Took only for 10 days after a fib problem.

And knowing what was expected, she did not tell a fib, for once.

Which was a fib thought up on the spur of the moment.

Finally, I gave up trying to think of a plausible fib.

Rusty told us a little fib when he said they'd left together.

If caught out, I would take refuge in a social fib.

The lawyer asked me to tell him the difference between a lie and a fib.

He'd then repeated the fib to anybody else who'd asked a similar question.

That's not to say he's incapable of the occasional fib.

These numbers may be a bit of a fib.

Rosemary was startled into another fib and said oh, they were not heavy.

It had been not merely a fib but a whopper.

Why is polite society all about the big fib?

"I told Spiro that he did a good job, but it was pretty much a fib."

And very nicely put, thought Hannah, considering it was a fib.

When in a jam always go with a fib.

It was a fib for her, minister's wife though she was.

He told her about the Elway pass; she thought it was a really creative fib.

"You used to say that when you were a little girl, and it was always a fib."

Okay, so I fib now and then, but it's always for a good cause.

Members fib to one another about their output and production capacity.

This time when the waiter asked how everything was, I didn't have to fib.

Life would have been a lot easier if she could fib to her parents the way other kids could.

I hate to fib, but enough's enough, don't you think?

"It was only in fun," he lamely tried to fib.

Don't ask why I fib to a woman who doesn't even cut my paycheck.

Plus, children of parents who fib frequently are better at deception themselves - and employ it more often.

"But you might fib to spare my feelings," Athena said.

He and Dolly had felt it prudent to fib about their marital status to her as well.

And she meant it - though I dare say she'd have been kind enough to fib if she'd had to.

Two: ask the dog sitters to fib a little.

"My mother says it isn't nice to fib," said Jane.

I was certain and equally certain that she would fib if it suited her.

And it wasn't as if we didn't fib to each other from time to time.

If you fib to me I'll have to give you a lot more smacks!"

It turns out that, when it comes to talking about how they eat, Americans are prone to fib or forget.

Never fib in response to questions about alcohol or drug use, sexual history, or other lifestyle matters.

Maybe it would be best to fib.

It takes time to build tradition, but the high prize money totals and the usual fine quality of the fields do not fib.

Claribel had been brought up to be fair and not to fib unless she really had to.

But it doesn't hurt to fib a little.

Johnson can learn by not repeating Parcells's mistake, which was to fib.

It's normal to fib about some things.

Cordelia couldn't fib with his plastic optics on her.