porky
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"It was hard and anybody in that position who says it wasn't, I think will be telling you porky pies."
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025
Instead, you get a harmonious porky bite with gamy undertones from the confit rabbit, beef tongue, duck wing meat and offal.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Austin recalled, “He was telling a porky pie,” and laughed, using Cockney rhyming slang for a lie.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
Divisive in its highly un-kosher, un-vegan, unapologetically porky nature, lard makes, in my humble opinion, the most deliciously flaky Hong Kong egg custard tarts.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2021
That’s probably why I’ve been getting kind of porky.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
“One of the porkies that David perpetuated for a very long time was that he came from a family where insanity seemed to be the norm and it just wasn’t true,” she says.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2019
Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood says his old club Tottenham were "telling porkies" last season when they say they did not contact other potential managers while Sherwood was still in charge at White Hart Lane.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2015
He continually tells porkies and blames everyone/everything else on his poor showing.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2015
I'm not sure what porkies Harry told the committee that runs the hall, but I wouldn't have thought a party for himself counted as a particularly good cause.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2013
The Bishop of Bath and Wells said, “Now me lad, what’s your story, eh? And don't tell any porkies, remember as how you’re talkin’ to a bishop.”
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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