I tell a lie
mainly UKsomething you say when you have just said something wrong and want to correct it:
Her name is Paula, no, I tell a lie (= I'm wrong) - it's Pauline.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- remediation
- revised
- smooth
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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