a pack of lies
pack of lies
A number of false statements made to deliberately hide the truth. After the human resources manager performed a background check on the new applicant, she realized his resume was a pack of lies. I didn't do anything they said I did. It's all a pack of lies!
See also: lie, of, pack
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
a ˌpack of ˈlies
(informal) a lot of lies told at the same time: The police discovered that her story was a pack of lies. He told me a pack of lies when I asked him about previous jobs.See also: lie, of, pack
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
pack of lies, a
An elaborate fabrication. This phrase uses pack in the sense of a large collection of abstract objects, and, as it has been since Shakespeare’s time, in a disparaging sense. Thomas Jefferson used it in a letter of 1763: “Would you rather that I should write you a pack of lies?” A closely related expression is a tissue of lies. It uses tissue in the figurative sense of a woven fabric—that is, an intricate intertwining of separate elements, similarly abstract.
See also: of, pack
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- a tissue of lies
- pack of lies
- pack of lies, a
- tissue
- tissue of lies
- have (one's) hide
- have hide
- hide
- hide the sausage
- sausage