in the same breath
If you say two things in the same breath, you say two things that are so different that if one is true, the other must be false:
You say he treats you badly but in the same breath you tell me how much you love him!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Denying & contradicting
- abnegate
- answer
- answer (sb) back
- change your tune idiom
- contradiction
- debunk
- defensive
- denial
- deny
- disagree
- Dutchman
- hell
- I'm a Dutchman idiom
- nonsense
- oxymoron
- rebut
- stand
- stand sth on its head idiom
- talk
- the hell sb is/does, etc. idiom
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