[Ads-l] Bald-faced liar

[Alan Knutson]

I would have thought they confused it with bold-faced liar.



On 2/16/2019 5:25 PM, James A. Landau wrote:
> An email from Ultraviolet.org (I'll be happy to forward it to anyone who is interested) had the subject line "Susan Collins: Bald-faced liar".
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> I think it most likely someone meant to say "bare-faced liar" and didn't quite get it correct.  However, there is the possibility the e-mail writer thought "a woman cannot be described as "bare-faced" and substituted a similar-sounding adjective.
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> - Jim Landau
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