give the lie | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,intransitiveortransitive)Torespondto aninsult,accusation, orfalsehoodby saying theoffenderislying, particularly in the context of provoking achallengeto aduel.c.1592,Walter Raleigh, “The Lie”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name), published1608:Say to the Court, it glowes,and shines like rotten wood;Say to the Church, it sheweswhats good, and doth no good:If Church and Court reply,thengiuethem boththe lye.1593,Richard Bancroft,Daungerous positions and proceedings, published and practised within this iland of Brytaine:Theygavethe Queenthe Lyedivers times, and uſed her with moſt deſpiteful Speeches.1606,Lodowick Bryskett,A Discourse of Civill Life: containing the Ethike Part of Morall Philosophie. Fit for the instructing of a Gentleman in the Course of a Vertuous Life.:It is reputed so great a shame to be accounted a lyer, that any other injury is cancelled bygiving the lie; and he that receiveth it, standeth so charged in his honor and reputation, that he cannot disburden himselfe of that imputation, but by striking of him that hath so giuen it, or by challenging him the combat.1610–1611(date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward]Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene ii]:Ariel: Thou liest.Stephano: Do I so? Take thou that! [BeatsTrinculo] As you like this,givemethe lieanother time!Trinculo: I did notgive the lie! Out o' your wits and hearing too?[…]1711,Joseph Addison,The Spectator, No. 99:The great Violation of the Point of Honour from Man to Man, isgiving the Lie. One may tell another he Whores, Drinks, Blasphemes, and it may pass unresented; but to say he Lies, tho’ but in Jest, is an Affront that nothing but Blood can expiate.1994, Steven Shapin,A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England:Whatever injury was the initial cause of the quarrel, conflict might move into its physically violent phase only through the particular act of resentment constituted bygiving the lie.2009, Jerome Neu,Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults:Giving the liebecame the fundamental way of questioning a man’s status as a gentleman.; Used ingive the lie to.

Examples:

EN: If we've gained nothing else, we can at least give the lie to those rumours and make the newspapers retract their exaggerations.
ES: Al menos desmentimos los rumores y la prensa se retractara.
EN: "and practically give the lie to our talk.
ES: " y prácticamente desmentimos nuestra conversación.
EN: Really. And the shot wounds we found in his shoulder and on his back, uh, rather give the lie to your son's claim to have fired in the air.
ES: Y teniendo en cuenta las heridas en el hombro y la espalda... no creo que su hijo haya disparado al aire.
EN: To the Old World of art, Europe, where the veterans of modernism, Salvador Dali, Picasso, were still pottering around to ever less effect, Rothko's paintings seemed to give the lie to anyone accusing American culture of shallowness.
ES: Para el Viejo Mundo del arte, Europa, donde los veteranos del modernismo, Salvador Dalí o Picasso, todavía andaban por ahí con cada vez menor impacto, las pinturas de Rothko parecían desmentir a todo aquél que acusara a la cultura americana de superficial.
EN: I did not give the lie
ES: Yo no di la mentira.
EN: - [Sighs] - Unless I will open my mouth in its defense, ask me to give the lie to my professions, degrade my memory, and disdain my soul.
ES: A menos que yo abra la boca en su defensa, pedidme que desmienta mis creencias, degrade mis recuerdos y menosprecie mi alma.
EN: This would give the lie to somebody who said this scene was shot exactly as the storyboards were done because you never would storyboard a moment like that.
ES: Esto desmentiría a quienquiera que dijera que la escena se grabó reproduciendo fielmente el guion gráfico porque algo así nunca se habría puesto en un guion gráfico.
EN: The fourth is the man who does not give the lie to Allah and His Prophet, because he hates falsehood and fears Allah the Mighty and Glorious, and honors the Messenger of Allah.
HI: 👉 4. दावते वलीमा कुबुल न करने वाला अल्लाह और उसके रसूल का ना फरमान है।
EN: We certainly know that some among you will give the lie to it.
HI: कि तेरे वादे पर जीये हम तो जान झूठ जाना
HI: तेरे वादे पर जिये हम तो ये जान झूठ जाना
HI: तेरे वादे पे जए हम तो ये जान, झूट जाना
HI: "तेरे वादे पे जिए हम तो ये जान झूठ जानां,
EN: The [servant's] heart did not give the lie to what he saw (Qur'an 53:11)
HI: झूठ से हारते देखा नहीं सच्चाई को
EN: of those who give the lie to God's revelations.
HI: खुदा सलामत रखे इन झुठे,
EN: To a day of toil you give the lie.
HI: झूठ पर यू रिस्ते कब तक निभाओगे,
HI: लाड़ में आकर गुस्सा करते हो झूठमूठ का
HI: कब तक तुमपे झूठ की चादर डाल दिया करुँगी;
EN: Who give the lie to the day of Judgement.
HI: जो रोज़ बहकते हैं,
EN: Arising from within, they give the lie to
HI: वो झूठ बोलकर खुश रहते है
EN: And the series of icons in the sidebar may give the lie to this.
HI: बरादर के दबे कुचले लोग नजात पा सके पर यह द

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