The Liar’s Dividend is a phenomenon where someone can get away with lying by saying that something is “fake news” and if the media attempts to expose the lie it can backfire and only make the lie sound / seem even more credible.
A sugar daddy whose primary source of income is derived from stocks (shares of a company). The portion of the profits from company are issued to the dividaddy are known as the dividends. Dividend income are then transferred from the sugar baby to the sugar daughter, thus naming the middleman: dividaddy.
An entirely imaginary future cash windfall, known by all parties not to exist, used as a face-saving alternative for admitting one has no bloody clue how one will pay for something.
Upon being presented with the bill, the customer looked the waitress square in the eye and replied, “no cash on me right now, but the BrexitDividend will cover it”.