feed a line

feed somebody a line

(informal)

to tell someone something which may not be completely true, often as an excuse She fed me a line about not having budgeted for pay increases this year.

See feed to the lions

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bidane	-	Basque
Trinity	TRIN-i-tee	English
Pushpa	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali
Elam	EE-ləm (English)	Biblical
Waldhar	-	Ancient Germanic
Wilton	WIL-tən	English