to tell a bald-face lie
- Fuente de la expresión
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. 5th ed. DVD-ROM Pearson Education Limited, 2009.
- Estructura completa
- to tell (someone) a bald-face lie
- Variantes
- to tell a barefaced lie (British English)
- Contexto
- No one or ordinary intelligence is, of course, expected to believe the statement, and every one who is capable of putting it into readable English knows it to be a bald-face lie.
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Autor
- The Newark Daily Advocate (Ohio) 12rh July 1883
- Título de la fuente
- The Newark Daily Advocate
- Año
- 1883
- Web
- http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bal2.htm
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Dialectal AM
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente