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"your nose is longer than a telephone wire. You keep telling me those lies, still goin' out with other guys..."..."

These are the lyrics from an American pop R & B song in the mid 60's (by the Castaways, I think) that used that old "Liar, Liar" playground taunt.

2007-01-15 03:57:29 · answer #1 · answered by c_kayak_fun 7 · 0 0

The origin of the phrase "Liar, liar, pants on fire, hang them up on telephone wire" has been tough to track down, but this derisive rhyme was most likely said first by an adult to a lying child, and later the child began to use the phrase.

2007-01-15 04:03:52 · answer #2 · answered by JaneBond 3 · 0 0

All I could remember from my childhood was that the end of the second line was "telephone wire," so I put "wire, wire, pants on fire" and "telephone wire" into a Google search.

I got these options for the second line:
... hang them up on telephone wire.
... nose as long as telephone wire.
... your nose is longer than a copper telephone wire.
... your nose is longer than a telephone wire.
... sitting on a telephone wire.
And other minor variations of those.

The one that clicks in my memory (from a childhood in a midwestern state in the 1940s) is "Liar, liar, pants on fire, nose as long as a telephone wire."

2007-01-15 04:04:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

every physique has it in yet otherwise mine is liar liar pants on hearth, stick your tungue to a telephone twine mine is that simply by fact if u've evr seen christmas tale, the boy sticks his tongue to a telephone twine and it gets caught.

2016-10-20 05:49:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Its...
Liar liar pants on fire, show your butt to the lady in the tire.
Another one is....
Liar liar pants on fire, show your butt to Canadian tire.
Hahaa

2016-04-29 11:58:36 · answer #5 · answered by Gitu 1 · 1 0

Hang your britches on a telephone wire.
Hang 'em high. Hang 'em low.
Hang 'em on a buffalo.

2007-01-15 04:02:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Being a thief of my trustworthiness is not something to be admired

2007-01-15 06:45:19 · answer #7 · answered by INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS 5 · 1 0

Nose as long as a telephone wire......

2007-01-15 03:57:44 · answer #8 · answered by Spontaneous Combustion 3 · 0 0

....hanging from a telephone wire

2007-01-15 04:02:32 · answer #9 · answered by armywife327 2 · 0 0

hang your tail from a nail

2007-01-18 02:07:00 · answer #10 · answered by JAN W 1 · 1 0

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