live a lie

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to keep sth important about yourself a secret from other people, so that they do not know what you really think, what you are really like, etc.

   Well, living a lie is not a life.

   I'm living a lie. What have I become?

In the movies · 3

• I'm living a lie. What have I become?Onward2020
• Well, living a lie is not a life.Remember2015
• My daddy lived a lie That's just the price that he paid Sacrificed his life just slaving away Oh, if there's one thing I hang on to That gets me through the night Oh...Win Win2011
• You've lived a lie for so long you've convinced yourself it is true.Remember2015
• Well, l can no longer live with my lie.The Dark Knight Rises2012
• You really believe that if you live a lie long enough - it'll suddenly become true? - SergeyFirebird2021

Learn it in full scenes

• Onward2020
  • Ian's Sixteenth Birthday Morning
  • Ian's Awkward Party Invite
  • Dad Leaves Ian a Wizard Staff
• Win Win2011
  • Mike's Family Breakfast
  • Mike Stalls on a Broken Boiler
  • Mike Wants to Be Leo's Guardian

From the same entry

• live and breathe
• live and let live
• live by your wits
• live hand to mouth
• live in the past
• live in sin
• live it up
• live off the fat of the land
• live off the land
• live to fight another day
• you haven't lived
• you live and learn