A smiling yellow paper mask on a stick leans beside a white flower in a glass of water.

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English proverb

A lie well stuck to is as good as the truth.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The proverb holds that a lie, if kept up firmly and consistently, will serve as well as the truth, a cynical view of how persistence makes a falsehood pass.

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