big lie

Noun

Meaning

big lie (plural big lies)

(often politics or public policy, often preceded by the) The policy or practice of insistently making a false claim which is so emphatic and grandiose that listeners and readers will reckon that the claim must be true because no one would dare to fabricate something so forceful and extravagant; a false claim produced by the application of this policy or practice.

Big Lie (plural Big Lies)

Alternative form of big lie

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Examples

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. Bob Dylan

I'm a flawed character... I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times. Lance Armstrong

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul. Libba Bray

I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. Upton Sinclair

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around. Stevie Ray Vaughan

You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky. Bill Whittle

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