‘Lie’ is such a stark and uncompromising word, like ‘death’. Adding ‘white’ to it doesn’t quite do the job of whitewashing, so we choose to say ‘fib’, which, in contrast, sounds relatively innocuous.
I fibbed to get out of doing something I don’t want to do. Funny, though, using the word ‘fib’ doesn’t make me feel any less duplicitous.
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