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A lie that filed for a smaller lie's paperwork.
means A small, harmless lie, usually told to smooth things over rather than to deceive seriously.
from Origin uncertain. Fib appears in English around the 1500s–1600s, possibly a shortened, playful spin-off of 'fible-fable,' itself a reduplication of 'fable' — language doing to the word what the word does to the truth: shrinking it down to something softer.
- severity
- small enough to skip confession
- origin
- maybe from fable, nobody fully agrees
- social role
- keeps weekends and marriages functional
- tell
- always about shoes, calories, or traffic