tissue

tissue of lies

A number of false statements made to deliberately hide the truth. After the human resources manager performed a background check on the new applicant, she realized his resume was a tissue of lies.

a pack of lies

also a tissue of lies (formal)

a story that someone has invented in order to deceive people He dismissed recent rumours that he'd had affairs with a number of women as 'a pack of lies'. The entire account of where she'd been and who she'd been with that night was a tissue of lies.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Filippa	fee-LIP-pah (Swedish)	Russian, Greek, Swedish, Italian
Lise	['li:zə]
Pedro	PE-dro (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese
Gemma	['dʒemə]
Hasim	-	Arabic
Peregrine	PER-ə-grin, PER-ə-green	English (Rare)