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tall tale
- An exaggerated, unreliable story: “My uncle claims that he was raised in a drainage ditch, but it's just another of his tall tales.â€
Idioms and Phrases
A fanciful or greatly exaggerated story, as in Some youngsters love tall tales about creatures from outer space coming to earth . This idiom uses tall in the sense of “exaggerated.†[Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
But you have to wonder whether his mother told him a tall tale as a child to comfort him.
A father’s fantastical tall tales aim to ease the pain of separation in this auspicious first feature inspired by director Klaudia Reynicke’s childhood in 1990s Lima, Peru.
Martin Scorsese combines archival footage with fresh interviews and tall tales to paint a mostly factual portrait of the carnivalesque tour launched by Bob Dylan in 1975.
It’s unclear what his position at the newspaper is, but his colleagues seem impressed by him as he weaves tall tales of knowing Warren Beatty and shows off his photography.
The tall tales, though, were always backed up by someone close to Bobby - or so Kirat thought.
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