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a beau mentir gui vient de loinA traveller may lie with impunity; Travellers tell fine tales.Rate it:

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a lie comes back sooner or laterYou can't run from a lie, it will return to you at some point.Rate it:

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a lie has no legsYou can't get away with a lie, the truth will always come out.Rate it:

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après lui il faut tirer l'échelleOne cannot do better than he has; No one can come up to him in that; That takes the cake.Rate it:

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bed downTo lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery.Rate it:

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bed them downTo ​lie down ​somewhere, usually ​somewhere different from where you usually ​sleep, in ​order to go to ​sleep.Rate it:

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beefcakeUsed other than as an idiom: see beef, cake.Rate it:

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blowtorch a marshmallow cakeTo vilify a benefactor, ridicule the boss, scorn a well-to-do friend in public.Rate it:

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boire le calice jusqu'à la lieTo drink the cup to the dregs.Rate it:

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bullshit!An untruth; an exaggeration; a lie. Syn: a load of shit; horse shit.Rate it:

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cake crumbsHardly anything.Rate it:

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cake crumbsCrumbs from a cake.Rate it:

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cake walkSomething extremely easy.Rate it:

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cake walkFrom the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number that number wins a cake.Rate it:

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cake walkA type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.Rate it:

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cakewalkA contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers.Rate it:

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ce qui me lie, c'est ma folieStraw bands will tie a fool’s hands.Rate it:

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cela enlève la paille“That takes the cake.”Rate it:

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cerise sur le gâteauthe icing on the cakeRate it:

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comme on fait son lit, on se coucheAs you make your bed, so you must lie on it.Rate it:

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cook upTo manufacture; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie.Rate it:

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coser y cantarA piece of cakeRate it:

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coucher sur la dureTo lie on the ground, on the floor.Rate it:

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cuddle upTo lie or sit in a comfortable, relaxed position, especially holding someone else.Rate it:

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do you think you can walkAsked to find out whether an ill or wounded person is able to walk or needs to sit down or lie down.Rate it:

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dormir la grasse matinéeTo lie late in bed.Rate it:

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duck soupEasy, or a piece of cake.Rate it:

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easy as pieVery easy. See also: piece of cake; a walk in the park; easy peasy; easy-peasy lemon squeezy; as easy as falling off a logRate it:

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easy peasy (lemon squeezy)a rhyming expression for saying something is very easy, straight forward; also written easy-peasy; See also: piece of cake; a walk in the park; as easy as falling off a log; easy as pieRate it:

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eat one's cake and have it tooAlternative form of have one's cake and eat it tooRate it:

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elle prime par sa laideurShe takes the cake for ugliness.Rate it:

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faire le gros dosto weather the storm, lie lowRate it:

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foist offTo lie to; to tell a lie to.Rate it:

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give the lieUsed in give the lie to.Rate it:

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give the lieto respond to an insult, accusation, or falsehood by saying the offender is lying, particularly in the context of provoking a challenge to a duelRate it:

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give the lie toTo prove something to be false; to refute.Rate it:

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grasse matinéesleep-in, lie-inRate it:

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have one's cake and eat it tooTo seek to have two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).Rate it:

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Have Your Cake and Eat It TooTo have something both ways, to have something in possession and be able to exploit or use itRate it:

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horse shit!An untruth; an exaggeration; a lie. Syn: Bullshit; a load of shit.Rate it:

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hutch upto move slightly, in order to make room for someone; for example to move in a bed to make room for someone else to lie, or to move sideways on on a seat so as to allow someone room to sit and share that same seat.Rate it:

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I tell a lieI am mistaken; I thought that what I said was true, but I have just realised that it is not.Rate it:

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if you lie with dogs you will get fleasIt is important whom to choose as one's closest acquanitances.Rate it:

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il voudrait avoir le drap et l'argentHe would like to have his cake and eat it too.Rate it:

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it's a piece of cakeEasily accomplished, nothing to itRate it:

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keep downTo lie low. To stay concealed by not standing up.Rate it:

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lay backTo lie down on one's back; to lie back.Rate it:

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lay downTo lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.Rate it:

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le beurre et l'argent du beurreone's cake and eating it too; two mutually exclusive things, such that one can only choose one over anotherRate it:

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lead onto mislead, to try to make someone believe a lie.Rate it:

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