Sentences with phrase «old fibbing»

Researchers have hotly debated whether the puzzling discrepancy stemmed from reduced social pressure on kids to switch from left to right, a tendency for lefties to die earlier than righties or plain old fibbing by survey respondents.

Today's millennials are the generation most likely to stretch the truth, with 64 % of 18 - 24 year olds fibbing about the number of books, or the kinds of books, they've read.

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When asked if Campbell was part of his short term and long term plans, Wenger was quick to answer yes, but when the next question was whether the 22 - year old was happy, there was a noticeable pause, perhaps with the boss deciding against telling a fib.

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For the most part, you'll find that the vast majority of fibs you encounter on dating sites tend to concern age, weight, income and of course photo, with ten - year - old graduation photos passing as up - to - date snaps.

They're fibbing about their age or their marital status, they're posting old photos that are not at all representative of their true appearance, or they're describing themselves in a way that doesn't mesh with the real person who's showing up on the actual date.

Textbook publishers are fibbing, declaring that their old materials, perhaps with a few paragraphs altered, are suddenly «Common Core aligned.»

All these fairs, and others, too, were going on at the same time in the same cavernous spaces, which were like the biggest big - box stores ever built, their denizens streaming into the fairgrounds, riding half - mile - long mobile walkways, hitching rides on commuter trains from the beautiful old central railway station so evocative for Paul of prewar Europe, drinking late into the night in the dangerously crowded lobbies of the hotels, hungover and sleepless and hoarse by day, complaining and fibbing and wheedling and smoking and drinking, gorging and lying and drinking and fucking by night, and having the time of their lives.

But there's a difference between casually fibbing to a bookseller and lying to your seventy - three - year - old mother when you are accompanying her for treatments to slow the growth of a cancer that had already spread from her pancreas to her liver by the time it was diagnosed.

The fib «started to become fairly obvious when Bear dwarfed any other dogs in the village,» the 57 - year - old grandmother of four told DailyMail.com.

«When one fib becomes due, as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance, and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.»