to tell a bald-face lie

Fuente de la expresión
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. 5th ed. DVD-ROM Pearson Education Limited, 2009.
Estructura completa
to tell (someone) a bald-face lie
Variantes
to tell a barefaced lie (British English)
Contexto
No one or ordinary intelligence is, of course, expected to believe the statement, and every one who is capable of putting it into readable English knows it to be a bald-face lie.
Tipo de fuente
newspaper
Autor
The Newark Daily Advocate (Ohio) 12rh July 1883
Título de la fuente
The Newark Daily Advocate
Año
1883
Web
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bal2.htm
Idioma
English
Nivel de uso
Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
Marca dialectal
Dialectal AM
Frecuencia
Frecuente