Definition of lie through (one's) teeth

lie through (one's) teeth

verb

• to tell a big lie.

                                                                                                                                                         
  
  Citation from "Prison Break-In", Arrested Development (TV, 2005), Season 3 Episode 7 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Dec 02 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 02 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'lie':
bald-faced lie	Definitions include: a lie that is so obvious that it is detected immediately.
lie like a rug	Definitions include: to lie frequently.
lie low	Definitions include: to hide.
lie to (one's) face	Definitions include: to lie directly to a person.
Other terms relating to 'teeth':
by the skin of (one's) teeth	Definitions include: narrowly.
critter teeth	Definitions include: used to denounce someone who has overly small and or crooked teeth. origin: Kentucky.
KMT	Definitions include: acronym for "kiss my teeth".
no skin off (one's) teeth	Definitions include: no problem/burden
show some teeth	Definitions include: to smile.
summer teeth	Definitions include: gapped or messed up teeth.
sweater teeth	Definitions include: a soft, sticky, mat-like film attached to the surface of teeth causing the sensation of having spun yarn in one's mouth.
Other terms relating to 'through':
burn through	Definitions include: to use up.
could suck a tennis ball through a garden hose	Definitions include: having great oral sex skills.
drag through the mud	Definitions include: to tarnish a person's reputation.
faster than sh*t through a goose	Definitions include: extremely fast.
follow through	Definitions include: to accidentally defecate.
get it through (one's) head	Definitions include: to understand.
go through a rough patch	Definitions include: to go through a rough patch, i.e. a difficult time.
go through the mill	Definitions include: to suffer a great ordeal.
go through the motions	Definitions include: to do something out of obligation rather than desire, without devoting any significant effort.
go through the roof	Definitions include: to become very high.
HT	Definitions include: acronym for "heard through".
jump through hoops	Definitions include: to perform unnecessary tasks to get a goal accomplished.
jump through (one's) *ss	Definitions include: used to express the amount of effort required to accomplish a task that needs to be completed ahead of schedule.
like crap through a goose	Definitions include: quickly.
like sh*t through a tin horn	Definitions include: quickly.
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