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View synonyms for tall tale
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.”
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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]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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