| 词组 | tissue |
| 释义 | tissue Ⅰ noun 1 crack cocaine. The variant 'tisher' is also used UK, 1998. 2 (especially in Tasmania) a cigarette paper AUSTRALIA, 1966 Ⅱ ⇨ tissue odds; tissue noun a betting forecast used by bookmakers. From the flimsy paper originally used for this purpose UK, 1942 tissue of liesA 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 tissue of lies. a ˌtissue of ˈlies(literary) a story, an excuse, etc. that is full of lies: This official report on the nuclear energy industry is a tissue of lies.pack of lies, aAn 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. |
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