People who talk “blarney” are saying things they do not mean. Usually the expression blarney is applied to flattery designed to gain a favor.
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Then it's the Blarney stone and four generations of one family living in the same house.
From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013
The timekeepers must have kissed the Blarney stone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Don't hope to hindher him Or to bewildher him— Sure, he's a pilgrim From the Blarney stone!
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
The stone door-step, hollowed like the steps to the Blarney stone, had borne the steady tread of feet for sixty years, and the floor within was worn in the same way.
From The Land of Long Ago by Hall, Eliza Calvert
It was averred that, like the majority of his countrymen, he must have kissed the famous Blarney stone which communicates to the lips which have pressed it the gift of suave falsehood.
From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston
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