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Follow-up on "brownfield": very satisfying that the OED examples for this compound cover the full range of possible spellings, that is 1. concatenated (= as one word), 2. spaced (brown field), and hyphenated (brown-field). In addition, while "brown-field" only occurs in quotes, the two other variants occur both with and without quotes.
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Just wondering how frequent the phrase/compound "white lie" is nowadays and in general admiring what a good concept it is, and on casually checking via http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk not only finding "classic white lie" (in case you wonder: "We are just good friends ---"), but, more relevant in academic and general writing contexts, this beauty:
"I didn't want to tell her I'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft. "