| 释义 |
pack of lies, a pack of liesA number of false statements made to deliberately hide the truth. After the human resources manager performed a background check on the new applicant, she realized his resume was a pack of lies. I didn't do anything they said I did. It's all a pack of lies!See also: lie, of, packtissue of liesA number of false statements made to deliberately hide the truth. After the human resources manager performed a background check on the new applicant, she realized his resume was a tissue of lies.See also: lie, of, tissuepack of liesa series of lies. The thief told a pack of lies to cover up the crime. John listened to Bill's pack of lies about the fight and became very angry.See also: lie, of, packa ˌpack of ˈlies (informal) a lot of lies told at the same time: The police discovered that her story was a pack of lies. ♢ He told me a pack of lies when I asked him about previous jobs.See also: lie, of, packpack of lies n. a whole collection or series of lies. I’ve heard you talk about this before, and it’s all a pack of lies. See also: lie, of, packpack of lies, aAn elaborate fabrication. This phrase uses pack in the sense of a large collection of abstract objects, and, as it has been since Shakespeare’s time, in a disparaging sense. Thomas Jefferson used it in a letter of 1763: “Would you rather that I should write you a pack of lies?” A closely related expression is a tissue of lies. It uses tissue in the figurative sense of a woven fabric—that is, an intricate intertwining of separate elements, similarly abstract.See also: of, pack |