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Meanings of great lie in English

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Usage of great lie in English
1
A man tells a great lie, and saves his character by it.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel
2
Husband, depend upon it we have been believing a great lie.
The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
3
The great lie, as I once explained it to you, Ledford.
The marrowbone marble company
4
Could he then save himself from destruction by a great lie?
In the Wilderness
5
That was a great lie by Americans their aim was to ridicule the Russians.
The South African
6
His boast, like all his wiles, is a little truth and a great lie.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
7
Well, God forgive me, and you too, you made me tell a great lie.
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-...
8
The great lie we keep telling one another is that this is the new normal.
The Irish Times
9
The great lie about football fans is that winning games is all they care about.
The Guardian
10
He was living the great lie, and yet to him it was no longer a lie.
The River's End
11
The great lie fell from her lips with a calmness that a martyr might have envied.
Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster
12
Or, at least, does it not typify another death to-night, the death of a great lie?
A Spirit in Prison
13
He saw a possible cross, and with a great lie he passed by on the other side.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
14
That music is a great lie.
Bella Donna: A Novel
15
As the recent Guardian article by the economist Paul Krugman illustrated, austerity is the great lie of this age.
The Guardian
16
That one great lie she told about the earth being flat when she knew it was round all the time!
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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