big lie

noun

a false statement of outrageous magnitude employed as a propaganda measure in the belief that a lesser falsehood would not be credible.

Origin of big lie¹

First recorded in 1945–50

The big lie about Don't Ask was that lies were not required; all they asked for was an omission: just Don't Tell.

Tell any lie, and if they believe the big lie, tell them a bigger lie.

He has said, “I could use the Third Reich, the big lie” to describe those supporting climate change.

Bill Clinton told a big lie, but that was about sex and was really embarrassing.

And Nixon told a big lie, but Nixon was Nixon, and no, Obama isn't Nixon, and Bush wasn't either for that matter.

I doa'nt swallow that story o' her'n. Depend upon it, man, it be a big lie fro' beginning to end.

The first big lie of his life he was forced to act rather than speak when Cleo had entered his life.

It's the technique of telling the "big lie" so many times that it becomes believable.

I've borne false witness—I'm worse than Sapphira—I've acted a big lie.

These are all parts of the big lie about God––His unreal opposite.

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