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 Translation for 'pack of lies' from English to French
boniment {m} [mensonges]pack of lies [coll.]
5+ Words
être un tissu de mensonges [loc.]to be a pack of lies [idiom]
débiter des mensonges à qn. [péj.]to tell sb. a pack of lies
Partial Matches
être un tissu de mensonges [loc.]to be a tissue of lies [idiom]
être inventé de toutes pièces [loc.]to be a tissue of lies [idiom]
être un tissu de mensonges [loc.]to be a web of lies [idiom]
chassezool.
meute {f}
pack of hounds
comm.
contenu {m} de l'emballage
contents of the pack
remplir une valise de vêtementsto pack a case full of clothes
raconter des salades [loc.]to tell lies
filmF
Les Petits Mouchoirs [Guillaume Canet]
Little White Lies
bot.T
pensée {f} des champs [Viola arvensis, syn. : V. tricolor L. subsp. arvensis]
love-lies-bleeding
Toute la difficulté est là.Therein lies the difficulty.
Là gît la difficulté.There lies the difficulty.
La principale difficulté porte sur ...The difficulty lies mainly in ...
savoir où le bât blesse [loc.]to discern where the problem lies
C'est là que le bât blesse. [loc.]Well, there lies the rub. [idiom]
C'est là que le bât blesse. [loc.]That is where the problem lies. [idiom]
C'est là que le bât blesse. [loc.]This is where the difficulty lies. [idiom]
s'enferrer dans des mensongesto ensnare oneself in one's own lies
Mensonges, vils mensonges et statistiques. Lies, damned lies and statistics. [cit: Mark Twain]
paquet {m} [de cigarettes]pack
faire sa valiseto pack
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Usage Examples English
  • The chairman of the Polish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission, Grzegorz Schetyna, called her commentary a pack of lies.
  • They denounced the book as a 'pack of lies' and labeled it 'communist propaganda'.
  • "Pack of Lies" is a 1983 play by English writer Hugh Whitemore, itself adapted from his "Act of Betrayal", an episode of the BBC anthology series "Play of the Month" transmitted in 1971.
  • She is angered and tells a classmate she knows the reasons Hitler gave for the invasion (to allegedly rescue ethnic Germans from Polish oppression) are a pack of lies.
  • Under the title of "creative consultant," he also co-wrote the adaptation of Hugh Whitemore's "Pack of Lies" for the "Hallmark Hall of Fame".

  • Benzali's stage performance in "Holiday" at The Old Vic so impressed director Anthony Page that Page cast him opposite Teri Garr in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie adaptation of "Pack of Lies", a play by English writer Hugh Whitemore.
  • British playwright Hugh Whitemore dramatized the case as "Pack of Lies," which was performed in London's West End, starring Judi Dench and Michael Williams.
  • In a 35 page judgement, judge Abdul Wahab Ghows dismissed Tan's defence as a "pack of lies", highlighting that his claim of thinking there was only ginseng in the car boot was offered only recently and not at the time of his arrest or at any time over the 3 years it took for the case to come to court.
  • Things fall apart for Sakshi when she realizes that her 20 years of familial and marital bliss was nothing but a pack of lies.
  • The novel was criticised by famed Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki as being "a pack of lies" about the war, leading to Hyakuta speculating that Miyazaki "wasn't right in the head".

  • Although the charges were false and a pack of lies, the arrested Jews were detained under “"Kafakesque"” conditions in the iron houses of Günzburg and Donauwörth.
  • and said Labour charges that the Conservatives would cut public spending were "a pack of lies".
  • Pakistan's former interior minister Rehman Malik termed the book a "pack of lies" maligning Pakistan's government and military, denying allegations regarding the extent of Pasha's role, and accused Davis of ulterior motives.
  • Four Chords & A Pack of Lies was released in 2007 and was the first full-length album from The Toluenes.
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