barefaced lie

English

barefaced ('unconcealed, audacious, shameless') + lie.

barefaced lie (plural barefaced lies)

A falsehood told with utter confidence and without trying to conceal the fact that it is false, especially a planned or deliberate falsehood.
I understand that salespeople try to explain things in a positive way, but that was a barefaced lie.

falsehood told with utter confidence without trying to conceal the fact that it is false

Icelandic: haugalygi f, (to tell somebody a barefaced lie) ljúga upp í opið geðið á einhverjum

Michael Quinion (2004) “Barefaced lie”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.

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