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69
position
A
Tale
Of Two Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
And thereby hangs a
tale
As you make your bed so must you lie on it
Ask no questions and hear no
lies
Bald-faced lie
Bare-faced lie
Betcha can't eat just one ( Lay's potato chips advertising slogan )
Between love and madness
lies
Obsession ( Calvin Klein advertising slogan )
Burger King - the home of the
Whopper
( Burger King advertising slogan )
Cock and bull story
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
Couldn't
lay
a glove on me
Cover Point ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Deep Extra Cover ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Deep Fine Leg ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Deep Gully ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Deep Mid Wicket ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Deep Point ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Deep Square Leg ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Don't take it
lying
down
Ducks on a pond ( A baseball expression meaning having runners in scoring
position
)
Economical with the truth
Everybody
lies
( A catchphrase from Dr Gregory House in House )
Extra Cover ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
First Slip ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Fly in the face of the evidence
Forward Short Leg ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Full fathom five thy father
lies
( from The Tempest by Shakespeare )
Get your smile on ( Lay's potato chips advertising slogan )
Give the lie to
He just wouldn't let it lie
He
lies
like a rug
Hiking the Appalachian Trail ( euphemism for
adultery
)
Hips Don't Lie ( Shakira with Wyclef Jean song )
Home is wherever I
lay
my hat
I cannot tell a lie
I tell a lie
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
It takes two hands to hold a
Whopper
( Burger King advertising slogan )
It was the best of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A
Tale
Of Two Cities )
Jockeying for
position
Lay
Lady
Lay
( Bob Dylan song )
Lay
a finger on
Lay
a trip on someone
Lay
an egg
Lay
bare
Lay
down roots
Lay
down rubber
Lay
down your arms
Lay
down your life
Lay
eyes on
Lay
hands on
Lay
in
Lay
it on the line
Lay
it on with a trowel
Lay
low
Lay
off
Lay
on
Lay
the blame
Lay
the ghost
Lay
the law down
Lay
the table
Lay
to rest
Lay
waste to
Lay
your cards on the table
Leg Gully ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Leg Slip ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Less than the truth
Let sleeping dogs lie
Lie back and think of England
Lie doggo
Lie down on the job
Lie down with dogs: get up with fleas
Lie fallow
Lie in
Lie in state
Lie in wait
Lie like a trooper
Lie low
Lie through his teeth
Little white lie
Live a lie
Live to tell the
tale
Long Leg ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Long Off ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Long On ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Long Stop ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Love the Way You Lie ( Eminem with Rihanna song )
Make your bed and lie in it
Mid Off ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Mid On ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Mid Wicket ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Missionary
position
Nail a lie
Nobody better
lay
a finger on my Butterfinger! ( Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan )
Oh, that way madness
lies
Old wives'
tale
Pack of
lies
Pole
position
Porky pies ( Cockney rhyming slang for
lies
)
Second slip ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
Sex,
Lies
And Videotape ( Steven Soderbergh movie )
Short Fine Leg ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Short Mid Wicket ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Short Square Leg ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Silly Mid Off ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Silly Mid On ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Silly Point ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Slipped my moorings ( euphemism for
adultery
)
Square Leg ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Stranger to the truth
String along
Tattle
tale
Tell
tale
sign
The Winters
Tale
The camera doesn't lie
The check is in the mail
The cheque is in the post
The
lay
of the land
The lie of the land
The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep ( Woody Allen line )
The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a poem by Owen )
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies, and statistics
Thereby hangs a
tale
Third Slip ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
Third man ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
This
position
closed
Tissue of
lies
Uneasy
lies
the head that wears a crown
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
What a
whopper
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away ( Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation )
Where the rubber meets the road ( where the important facts or realities lie )
Wicket Keeper ( field
position
in the game of cricket )
You made your bed, now lie in it