Related Clues:

• Be a dirty double-crosser
• Fictitious account
• Be horizontal
• Be dishonest
• Misrepresentation
• Go beyond embellishment
• Fail a polygraph test
• Fail to be truthful
• Trumped-up story, essentially
• Fib, e.g
• Campfire recitation
• "I cannot tell a ___" (George Washington's claim)
• 'Likely ___!'
• Distortion, perhaps
• "The dog ate my homework" is a classic one