Related Clues:

• It's not a bad lie
• Something that might be said with fingers crossed behind the back
• Slightly embellished truth
• Statement made while crossing the fingers, maybe
• 'You don't look a day over 30,' perhaps
• Tell a white lie
• Tell an untruth
• It's not quite a whopper
• Slight fiction
• We are prone to absorb blow as harmless deception
• Spare a friend's feelings, maybe
• Bit of baloney from someone's mouth?
• Untruth I found in key book
• It's petty but misleading
• Teeny lie