live a lie

to spend your life as someone else For all of his adult life, he lived a lie and didn't confess even to his family that he was a spy.

live a lie

to live a life that is dishonest because you are pretending to be something that you are not, either to yourself or to other people Walker, who admitted that he was gay last year, spoke of the relief he felt at no longer having to live a lie.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ryuu	ṙyoo:	Japanese
Hizkiah	-	Biblical
Floyd	FLOID	English
Dagmar	DAHK-mahr (German), DAHG-mahr (Finnish)	Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, German, Czech, Slovak, Finnish
Safi	-	Arabic
FerkÓ	-	Hungarian