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
Ganesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali, Nepali
Arne	[a:n]
Clelia	-	Italian
Gopinath	-	Tamil, Indian, Malayalam
Bastiaan	BAHS-tee-ah:n	Dutch
BenjÁMin	-	Hungarian