telling

See:
  • (there's) no knowing
  • (there's) no saying
  • (there's) no telling
  • a tale never loses in the telling
  • I don't mind admitting (something)
  • I don't mind admitting, telling you..., etc.
  • I don't mind telling you
  • I don't mind telling you (something)
  • keep telling yourself that
  • kiss and tell
  • take a telling-off
  • tale never loses in the telling
  • tell (one) about (someone or something)
  • tell (one) to (one's) face
  • tell (one) what (one) can do with (something)
  • tell (someone or something) apart
  • tell (someone or something) by (something)
  • tell (someone or something) from (someone or something else)
  • tell (someone) what's what
  • tell (something) to (one)
  • tell a (little) white lie
  • tell a different story
  • tell a different tale
  • tell a/the tale
  • tell against (someone or something)
  • tell all
  • tell another story
  • tell another tale
  • tell fortunes
  • tell of (something)
  • tell off
  • tell on (one)
  • tell porkies
  • tell tales
  • tell tales out of school
  • tell the (whole) world
  • tell the difference between (someone or something)
  • tell the same story (of something)
  • tell the same tale (of something)
  • tell the time
  • tell the truth and shame the devil
  • tell time
  • tell which is which
  • that would be telling
  • there's no knowing/saying/telling...
  • there's no telling
  • Who are you telling?
  • you're telling me
  • You're telling me!
References in periodicals archive
Of the 28 percent who said police were telling the truth, 10 percent said they were definitely telling the truth, while 17 percent said they were probably telling the truth.
SWS: Filipinos split over truth of police 'nanlaban' claim
The time they took to give a response was recorded, and response times were compared between telling the truth and lying, both when they made that decision themselves and when they were told whether to fib or not.
Telling the whole truth
Magistro was angry, telling The Asbury Park Press that her concern was for "the students who have come forward and expressed to their parents an uncomfortableness or questioned their teacher or their parents about what is constitutionally correct...."
Prayer and pigskin: Americans United assists New Jersey public school district in battle over football coach's religious game plan
Be positive: Telling someone that you never liked their current partner is not the best approach, even if it's true.
I should've told you so: if you think your daughter's fiance is a future felon, should you speak your mind or hold your tongue? Don't clam up but proceed with caution, advise the experts
Long talks with family and with staff at my MS center in New York convinced me that telling would be personally salutary.
MS on the job
He introduces these tales with an outlandish claim: "The truth is that golems are real, they are out there now, and they are everywhere." At the same time, he punctuates his story with insistent references to lies, liars, and lying, culminating in his final words: "And, naturally, I'm still telling lies." In other words, Chabon's talk exhibits all the hallmarks of a tall tale, with the author signaling to the audience at every turn that the narrator is not to be completely trusted.
Truth, lies, and lecture series
Through three novels and six volumes of short stories, Cooper has been telling these tales in a voice that is shoot-from-the-hip direct, moralistic, cautionary yet always compassionate.
Sometimes I cry, sometimes I laugh: J. California Cooper spins tales of common folk who insist on being heard
For decades, psychologists have done laboratory experiments in an attempt to describe differences between the behavior of liars and of people telling the truth.
Deception detection: psychologists try to learn how to spot a liar
* Start by telling us--your investors--why we should entrust a piece of our portfolios to you.
We're listening; but nobody's talking: a corporate communications executive calls on today's leaders to lead. (From Where I Sit)
The final stage was characterized by children telling a coherent, elaborate story from beginning to end without getting sidetracked.
The developmental progression of children's oral story inventions
His face was intense and it seemed as though what he was telling Wanda was important.
CROSS THE STREET
Denied his hoped-for TV career, Stempel had begun talking to newspapers, telling them he had been given answers and then been required to "take a dive." Twenty-One producers tried to discredit Stempel as mentally unstable.
Quiz-Show Scandal
In fact, the telling of Bible stories has become an unknown art within Christian communities.
Sharing the good news through story-telling
His attempts at control had resulted in his wife's telling him to pack up and move out.
Magic words to obtain confessions
But what impressed me most were the small and very telling human touches that showed up all the time.
From Dresden to Hollywood