big lie, the

Slang definitions & phrases for big lie, the

big lie, the

modifier

: the big-lie technique/ a big-lie approach

noun phrase

A major political untruth, usually of a demagogic sort, uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency

[1940s+; fr a notion of Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (1924), that a big lie is often easier to foist on the masses than a little one]