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I'm telling a lie
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English
Phrase
phr ~tell[ing]
en I tell a lie.
en 1956 1972 w:Anthony Burgess Time for a Tiger The Malayan Trilogy 16 "I seen one fellow in Jerusalem, wait, I'm telling a lie, it was in Alex, when I went there for a bit of leave, one fellow with a complete foxhunt on his back."