I'm telling a lie

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I'm telling a lie

  1. Alternative form of I tell a lie
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 16:
      "I seen one fellow in Jerusalem, wait, I'm telling a lie, it was in Alex, when I went there for a bit of leave, one fellow with a complete foxhunt on his back."