porky pies
Rhyming slang falsehoods
Porky pies is Cockney rhyming slang for lies.
The phrase comes from the British tradition of substituting rhyming expressions for common words—porky pies rhymes with lies.
Often shortened to just porkies: He's been telling porkies again.
The term is informal and mostly British, suggesting harmless fibs rather than serious deception.
- white liesMinor benevolent deceptions
- fibsPetty falsehoods
- tall talesFantastical exaggerated stories
- pack of liesMultiple deliberate untruths together
- whoppersOutlandish untruths
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- Cockney slangapples and pears, boat race, rhyming slang, bread and honey, brown bread
- London slanginnit, bruv, fam, roadman, bare