Be on
Be on verb - Appear in a show, on T.V. or radio.
Lie
Lie verb - To make a statement one knows to be untrue.
Be on and lie are semantically related in be situated topic. Sometimes you can use "Be on" instead a verb "Lie".
Nearby Word: lied
Both terms in one sentence
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He referred to Trump's repeated assertion that he'd been invited on Oliver's show, "It was genuinely destabilizing to be on the receiving end of a lie that confident." He's not the only one who gets this impression from Trump.
Source: Gaslighting -
He's upset at realizing he's a character, and frustrated at having to be on his own, but it's a sign of his Character Development that he takes his world literally being proved as a lie fairly calmly.
Source: Web Video / To Boldly Flee - When you get 99 mushrooms it will be on the 100th, that doesn't even show up, that Mario will appear in the game with his hat off and his hair tousled, like someone who just realized they had been living a lie.
Source: WMG / Super Mario Bros.
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