live a lie
To conduct one's life in such a way as to deny or conceal some essential circumstance or aspect of one's character, usu shameful
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Main Entry: ↑live
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live a lie phrase
to spend your life hiding the truth about yourself or your feelings
Thesaurus: to live in a particular wayhyponym
Main entry: live
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live a lie
: to live in a false or deceptive way : to live in a way that does not show who you truly are or what your feelings truly are
Their friends thought that they had a happy marriage, but they were living a lie. [=their marriage was not happy]
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Main Entry: ↑lie
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Main Entry: ↑live
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live a ˈlie idiom
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.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.