嘘をつく (to tell a lie)

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The standard collocation for 'to tell a lie,' literally 'to attach a lie.' つく here is 付く ('attach'), not 'to arrive.' The variant 嘘を言う ('to say a lie') is interchangeable, though つく is slightly more idiomatic.

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