draw the long bow | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toexaggerate; to telltall tales.Synonyms:draw a long bow,pull the long bow,throw the hatchet1922February,James Joyce, “[Episode 1:Telemachus]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company,[…],→OCLC, part I[Telemachia],page16:[…]Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas todraw the long bowabout the schoonerHesperusand etcetera.

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