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Vocabulary: Truth and falsehood - English lesson

I have been feeling like giving you some words and expressions in order to speak the Truth, use the right words to express yourselves. A few idioms will help too.

SOME USEFUL EXPRESSIONS:

- to bend (bent; bent) the truth/the facts: to say something that's not completely true

- to stretch the truth: idem - to make stg look better than in reality

- To take (took, taken) sb for a ride: to cheat or swindle to get stg dishonestly 

- To pull the wool over sb's eyes: to deceive, or trick someone  

- to throw (threw, thrown) dust in one's eyes: to mislead (misled, misled) someone or deceive someone

- to be taken to the cleaners: to be robbed or cheated

- nothing could be further from the truth:  totally untrue

Ready for the test ? THE FORCE is with You ! 

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2. 'Of course, this painting is a copy. It would be too expensive if it were genuinefallaciousdeceitfulI don't know and nobody could afford that.'



3. As a matter of factStretching the truthTruth to the matterBeing taken to the cleanersI don't know, what is said is not precise enough to be useful to the police.



4. 'Thanks for be truthfulproving me rightpretending to do itI don't know and telling what really happened at the party.'



5. 'He had never seen a 500-dollar bill, but could immediately tell that the bill he was holding was untrueforgedgenuineI don't know. Therefore, he immediately went to the police.



6. This co-worker has provedsimulateddeceivedpretendedI don't know the whole team by refusing to share the information he had on the project.



7. He bent the factspulled the wool overproved it rightpretended to beI don't know tying his laces, but he was just trying to gain time.



8. 'You must stretch the truthhave feigned itbe mistakenI don't know. This is totally wrong and I can prove it!'



9. 'This actor is so-calledsupposedlyphoneyI don't know the future winner of the Oscar as none is better than he is.'



10. When he realised his wallet was missing, Brian understood he had been taken for a ridetold fibsbe mistakenI don't know and decided to file a complaint against his thief.