polite fiction

These user-created lists contain the word ‘polite fiction’.

• This is not a list

  you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?

  little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...

• the one-two punch

  short (mostly two-word) collocations, pat phrases, idioms &c. that I like

  merry chase, glancing blow, beast mode, feedback loop, false flag, dear god, nothing human, deflector shield, hatchet job, not cricket, bang on, a tinker's damn and 250 more...

• gleaned words

  found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.

  juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...