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Question on the term “Bald face lie”
Self - simple question
| 12-11-2023
| Sel (wgm_alabama)
Posted on 12/11/2022 8:57:06 PM PST by wgmalabama
When someone calls you a bald face liar. What type of lie is that? Is it a war accusation, Scruggs off, ignore …
Imagine it was your wife.
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To: wgmalabama
Depends if it was a bald face lie or not.
To: wgmalabama
“A bald-faced lie is one that is obvious, unambiguous, and readily apparent—like the visage of a person unobscured by facial hair. Bald-faced is a pejorative term, as it more specifically means shameless or brazen.”
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posted on
12/11/2022 8:59:14 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: wgmalabama
Originally it was “bold faced liar”.
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posted on
12/11/2022 8:59:29 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: wgmalabama
Bald face liar=
If you don’t have a hairy butt, you would be lying out your a$$.
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posted on
12/11/2022 8:59:36 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
To: Repeal The 17th
That was always my understanding.
Bold, not Bald.
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:01:19 PM PST
by
rellic
To: wgmalabama
just guessing, but ‘bald-faced’ might mean that EVERYTHING is visible- nothing is hidden (As in hiding facial features behind a beard and stash maybe?), people see the person for what they are- a liar- they are fully exposed?
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:01:58 PM PST
by
Bob434
(question)
To: Bob434
kinda like the term ‘naked truth’ maybe?
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:02:23 PM PST
by
Bob434
(question)
To: EEGator
I looked it up bald faced liar in the dictionary and found this.
Michael Richard Pence is an American politician who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 under President Donald Trump.
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:05:07 PM PST
by
hardspunned
(Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
To: wgmalabama
The original was a barefaced liar.
To: Bob434
“ just guessing, but ‘bald-faced’ might mean that EVERYTHING is visible- nothing is hidden (As in hiding facial features behind a beard and stash maybe?), people see the person for what they are- a liar- they are fully exposed?”
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Correctamundo… IMHO.
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:08:07 PM PST
by
House Atreides
(I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
To: wgmalabama
The lack of denial is rather amusing...
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:11:24 PM PST
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: wgmalabama
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:16:01 PM PST
by
budj
(Combat vet, second of three generations.)
To: hardspunned
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:16:05 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: wgmalabama
I've always argued with people that the term actually is "
Bold Faced lie", meaning lying with a bold face, which makes far more sense than "Bald faced lie" which really makes none.
I believe the term came into existence as the former and the latter came to be because people get lazy about pronunciations over time. It's like the saying "turn over a new lease" which for some people has become "turn over a new leaf" for the same reason.
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:28:33 PM PST
by
Bullish
(Rot'sa Ruck America. )
To: wgmalabama
“Imagine it was your wife.”
She’s pissed and is probably planning your exit.
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:36:20 PM PST
by
Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: wgmalabama
It means bearded women cannot lie.
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posted on
12/11/2022 9:44:25 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: wgmalabama
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posted on
12/11/2022 10:06:53 PM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Repeal The 17th
I usually defer to Merriam Webster in such matters. They do their homework:
If you wanted a descriptor for such a lie in the 19th century, chances are you would have opted for barefaced (or in its slightly less common variant form, bare-faced). Lies (and, less frequently, liars) have been described as "barefaced" since at least the 1830s. The term was doing other jobs before it had that application, however. Since the late 16th century it's described those having the face uncovered, whether by being sans beard or sans mask. And in between, it developed the meaning "open, unconcealed," as in "barefaced impudence"—a descriptor for bold rudeness that paved the way for the "barefaced lie."
By the mid-20th century, it seems (though we can only speculate) that "barefaced lie" didn't sound awful enough, and the term bald-faced (less commonly, baldfaced) began to describe the lies and liars...
And then, in the late 20th century, the term bold-faced (less commonly, boldfaced) got into the game. Since the late 16th century (back when barefaced was first describing beardless folks), the word had meant "bold in manner or conduct," or "impudent." It was a word used to describe brazenly rude types. But in the second half of the 20th century the word began to modify lie, as well as liar, with a frequency that increased as the century wore on...https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced
To: wgmalabama
Question on the term “Bald face lie”Come on, wgmalabama! We have more important "fish to fry" here at Free Republic than to speculate on the origin and usage of antiquated English expressions!
Say... Where do you suppose the phrase "fish to fry" actually originated?
Regards,
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posted on
12/11/2022 10:28:03 PM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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