(chiefly, British, idiomatic) I am mistaken; I thought that what I said (or wrote) was true, but I have just realised that it is not.
I visited Canada in 1996—no, I tell a lie, in 1997.
“Sorry, I tell a lie, did a recount...95th species of the year”
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“I tell a lie - found a rather splendid begonia lurking!”
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