English Dictionary

big lie

名詞

(often politics or public policy, often preceded by the) The policy or practice of insistently making a false claim which is so emphatic and grandiose that listeners and readers will reckon that the claim must be true because no one would dare to fabricate something so forceful and extravagant; a false claim produced by the application of this policy or practice.

日本語の意味

政治や公共政策の場面で、意図的に用いられる極めて誇大で断固たる虚偽の主張。誰もがそれほど大胆な虚偽を作り出すはずがないという前提から、虚偽であるにもかかわらず真実と信じさせる目的で行われる手法や、その結果生じる虚偽の主張。

The campaign relied on the big lie that widespread voter fraud had decided the election, repeating it so often that many began to accept it as truth.

その運動は、広範な不正投票が選挙を決定したという大嘘に依存しており、それを何度も繰り返したため多くの人がそれを真実だと受け入れるようになった。

意味（1）

(often politics or public policy, often preceded by the) The policy or practice of insistently making a false claim which is so emphatic and grandiose that listeners and readers will reckon that the claim must be true because no one would dare to fabricate something so forceful and extravagant; a false claim produced by the application of this policy or practice.

In an interview, Lewis Brandon, the institute's director, said of reports of the Holocaust: “It's a myth, using the big lie technique, perpetrated solely to give the Zionists a shield against criticism of Israel and to justify massive American aid to Israel.”

big lies （ plural ）