11 lying words and phrases - English vocabulary lesson

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Hey Jay, you’re late.
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Where are you?
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I’m…
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I’m on my way.
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How soon will be you be here?
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20 minutes?
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V: You’ve gotta be joking.
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I’m waiting for an Uber.
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An Uber.
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Yeah, the first Uber driver got stuck in traffic so I had to call another Uber driver he got
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lost so I had to call another one…
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You fell asleep, didn’t you!
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I was lying through my teeth there.
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That means saying things that were not true at all.
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You were telling me a pack of lies – that’s a group or series of lies that were all untrue.
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And that’s what this videos about.
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Words and phrases about lying.
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Before we start, notice we use the verb ‘tell’ with lies.
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We don’t ‘say’ them, we ‘tell’ them.
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And if we think someone’s lying we might say: ‘You’ve gotta be joking’.
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Basically it means I don’t believe you.
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And a similar one.
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‘You’ve got to be kidding’.
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To kid means to tell someone something that’s not true, and we often kid people as a joke
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But we can also kid ourselves.
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That’s when we tell ourselves something that isn’t true because we really want to
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believe it IS true.
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I really need to buy another pair of shoes.
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I’ll just watch one more episode and then I’ll go to bed.
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If I pay by credit card, it’s not real money If I open this bag of chips, I’ll just have
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one.
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So that was us kidding ourselves.
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We’re both on a diet so we’re trying to write down all the calories we eat.
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But sometimes we cheat a little.
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I can have two ounces of these.
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Ah too many.
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There you go!
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Two ounces.
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Jay!
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What?
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OK and I can have 5 oz of this.
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(keeps pouring till it goes over, weighs up pouring it back in bottle and decides not)
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Is that five ounces?
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Yeah– sort of.
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I was stretching the truth there, or bending the truth.
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When you stretch or bend the truth then what you say is not completely accurate.
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Technically it’s lying, but just a little bit.
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We’ve discovered that food packages sometimes bend the truth.
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Hey this is good Jay.
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It’s only 100 calories per serving.
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That’s great.
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But how big is a serving?
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X grams/ounces.
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That’s not enough, is it?
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So packages can be misleading.
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Misleading means they give you the wrong idea and make you believe something that isn’t
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true.
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Let’s have a couple of idioms now.
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Hey Jay what are you eating?
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Nothing.
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What’s behind your back?
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Come on.
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Come clean.
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Chocolate cake.
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You caught me red-handed If you come clean, you tell the truth
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And if you catch someone red-handed, then you catch them in the act of doing something
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wrong.
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But it was only a little piece of chocolate cake so it was only a fib.
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A fib is a small unimportant lie.
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We often use fib to describe the lies little children tell.
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Fib can be a noun and a verb And we can also say a fibber.
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That’s a person who tells fibs.
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A fib is similar to a white lie.
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That’s an unimportant lie too.
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But usually we tell white lies to avoid hurting other people’s feelings.
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How was the meeting yesterday?
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OK.
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Did you show everyone my PowerPoint presentation?
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Yes.
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They said they said it was boring.
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Oh now I feel terrible.
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(Vicki shrugs) Why couldn’t you have told me a white lie?
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What?
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You could have said they didn’t have time to look at it or something.
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OK.
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How about the lunch I ordered.
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Did they like that?
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They didn’t have time to look at it.
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That wasn’t a good white lie.
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Yeah, the thing about white lies is they are told out of kindness.
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They’re lies that make the other person feel good.
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So white lies should benefit the person they’re told to rather than the person who’s telling
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the lie.
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For example, it’s telling your dad that the meal he cooked tastes good, even when
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it doesn’t.
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Or telling your grandma you love the sweater she knitted for you, even though you don’t.
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Perhaps you have some more examples.
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Tell us in the comments.
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Or tell us a white lie!
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Something to make us feel good!
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Like how young and thin we look.
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OK and that’s it.
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Bye everyone.
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Bye-bye.
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