tall tale

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Ataleorstorywhich isfantasticandgreatlyexaggerated; also, anaccountofquestionableveracity; alie, anuntruth.Synonyms:Banbury story of a cock and a bull,cock-and-bull story,fish story,tall story,traveller's taleHe returned on Monday with atall taleabout a 100-pound fish he had caught.2020August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, inNational Geographic Magazine‎[1]:The head-in-sand idea is a threadbare, 2,000-year-old hand-me-down from the Roman naturalist Pliny, who sometimes passed ontall tales.

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