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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - white lie

 
 

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White lie

white lie
(white lies) If you refer to an untrue statement as a white lie, you mean that it is made to avoid hurting someone’s feelings or to avoid trouble, and not for an evil purpose. N-COUNT
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  ~ n informal a lie that you tell in order to avoid hurting someone's feelings ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
2.
  {n. phr.} An innocent social excuse. * /I am too busy to go to their house for dinner tonight. I will call them and tell a little white lie about having the flu./ WHITE SALE {n.} The selling, especially at lower prices, of goods or clothing usually made of white cloth. * /Mother always buys many things at the January white sale to save money./ ...
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