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 )

author Zesty Y calendar 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.

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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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