Ask me no questions, (and) I'll tell you no lies In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "ask me no questions, (and) I'll tell you no lies", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

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2022-03-23 07:03

Meaning of Ask me no questions, (and) I'll tell you no lies

Variants:

ask no questions and hear no lies

Ask me no questions, (and) I'll tell you no lies spoken language

Don't ask me questions about that topic because I will probably lie.

When he was about to ask me, I told him "ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies."

A: Can you tell me what happened to her? B: Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.

Other phrases about:

Children and Fools Tell the Truth

White lie

Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth

Used to imply that someone is acting as if he or she is demure, innocent, sincere or reserved but they may be not

couldn't lie straight in bed

To be dishonest or deceptive and no one can believe

Cry Wolf

Used to show that someone is claiming that something is happening when it is not or giving a false alarm

How’s it hanging?

How's it going?; how are you?

Origin of Ask me no questions, (and) I'll tell you no lies

This phrase has been listed in the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, this saying recurs throughout 150 years of English literature, from Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer (1773), in which the lies are “fibs,” to George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman (1903).

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