Related Clues:

• Fudge a fact
• It's not a bad lie
• Something that might be said with fingers crossed behind the back
• Statement made while crossing the fingers, maybe
• Tell a white lie
• Tell an untruth
• It's not quite a whopper
• Spare a friend's feelings, maybe
• Bit of baloney from someone's mouth?
• It's petty but misleading
• Teeny lie
• Mistruth
• Minor untruth
• Innocuous falsehood
• Subtract a year or two from one's age, say