"little white lie" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1876 June, Mark Twain, “The Facts Concerning The Recent Carnival Of Crime In Connecticut”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "What did you do then? Why, you made me say to myself, 'Ah, it would have been so much kinder and more blameless to ease him off with a little white lie, and send him away feeling that if he could not have bread, the gentle treatment was at least something to be grateful for!'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, “Motion Picture Soundtrack”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead",
          "text": "Stop sending letters / Letters always get burned / It's not like the movies / They fed us on little white lies",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of white lie"
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  "word": "little white lie"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1876 June, Mark Twain, “The Facts Concerning The Recent Carnival Of Crime In Connecticut”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "What did you do then? Why, you made me say to myself, 'Ah, it would have been so much kinder and more blameless to ease him off with a little white lie, and send him away feeling that if he could not have bread, the gentle treatment was at least something to be grateful for!'",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, “Motion Picture Soundtrack”, in Kid A, performed by Radiohead",
          "text": "Stop sending letters / Letters always get burned / It's not like the movies / They fed us on little white lies",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of white lie"
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  "word": "little white lie"
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