kıvırmak
English translation: to evade, to sidestep, to get around
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| 5 | cook up |
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| 5 | bend the truth |
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| 5 | to crook |
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| 5 | (to)act a lie |
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| 5 | to pull off, to manage, to evade, to cop out, to sidestep, to make excuses |
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cook up Explanation: veya make up -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 50 mins (2009-03-03 08:00:51 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- invent, fabricate, vamp up gibi alternatifler de kullanılabilir. |
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bend the truth Explanation: ...or "twist the truth" if you prefer. It is slightly more negative than "cook up" but it is probably more widely used. It is nice that it has both meanings of "kıvırmak" (twist/fabricate) in it as well. "At one point I thought she understood that you were lying, but you were good at bending the truth." "You're always bending the truth like that!" Reference: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026774.400-our-psych... Reference: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-300855/Bend-tru... |
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to crook Explanation: I would express by this verb. |
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(to)act a lie Explanation: (to)invent a lie |
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23 hrs confidence:
to pull off, to manage, to evade, to cop out, to sidestep, to make excuses Explanation: this verb has various different meanings and actually the two sentences provided have different meanings. "Bir an yalan söylediğini anladığını zannettim, ama iyi kıvırdın." would mean: "I thought he/she understood you were lying, but you pulled it off" It also suggests an act, with which he/she managed to pull off his/her con. "İşte hep böyle kıvırıyorsun" would very probably mean (according to context of course): "You always make excuses like this." The two are distinctly different meanings. For evasion another term "yan çizmek" is used as well, which literally means to sidestep. |
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