| 词汇 | barefaced liar |
| 词源 | barefaced liar. Barefaced, “beardless, with no hair upon the face,” may have been coined by Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where it is first recorded. Within half a century or so it came to mean bold, audacious, impudent, or shameless, like many boys, who were barefaced. By 1825 we find “the bare- facedness of the lie” recorded, and Harriet Beecher Stowe writes of a barefaced lie in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. |
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