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How to Spot a Lying CEO Fibbing in the corner office.

From Inc • Oct. 18, 2010

Fibbing causes the heart to pound, breathing to accelerate and sweating to increase, and the polygraph measures all those things.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spring's the boy for a Moulsey-Hurst rig, my lads,   Shaking a flipper, and milling a pate; Fibbing a nob is most excellent gig, my lads,   Kneading the dough is a turn-out in state.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen

Lying and Fibbing   The queerest Goop in all the land Was Annie Annabelle LeGrand; She often said what wasn't true— Which is an awful thing to do!

From The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders Famous for their Misdeeds and Serving as a Salutary Example for all Virtuous Children by Burgess, Gelett