He assured me that it really happened, but I reckon he was just pitching me a line.
他言之凿凿地说确有其事,可是我觉得他在说谎。
原声例句
朗文OCLM-01单词
She pitched me some line about a bomb scare on the metro.
【pitch】她跟我胡诌了一个地铁里的炸弹恐吓事件。
英语百科
List of gear nomenclature
(重定向自Pitch line)
The addendum is the height by which a tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line; also, the radial distance between the pitch diameter and the outside diameter.