Kipling:<br/><br/>... "Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies."<br/><br/>As known, "lie" when used as a verb may denote one out of two verbs: <br/><br/>the action of telling a lie, and the action of becoming horizontal.<br/><br/>It is clear to me that here the usage of "lied about" is to describe lies being told; but,<br/><br/>there is an English idiom which has another meaning but looks the same: "lie about" which means to be lazy etc. <br/><br/>Is there a game of words here that I don't see?<br/><br/>Thanks.