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Meanings of fairy tale in English

Portuguese
contos de fadas
Catalan
falòrnia
Spanish
cuento de hadas
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An interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse.

contos de fadas
Russian
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Portuguese
contos de fadas
Spanish
cuento de hadas
Catalan
conte de fades
Wikidata

Fictional story typically featuring folkloric fantasy characters and magic.

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Examples for "fairytale"
Examples for "fairytale"
1
But is this fairytale of urban planning too good to be true?
The Guardian
2
It was a fairytale that actually happened to my life last year.
The Guardian
3
In the second half, their fairytale continued and they doubled their lead.
The South African
4
One way or another, that fairytale will reach its conclusion on Saturday.
The Guardian
5
On a sunny morning in spring they suggest knights in a fairytale.
T. Tembarom
1
The old Chinese fairy story hits upon a fundamental and vital truth.
The Mind and Its Education
2
I've never read a fairy story that reads quite like this one.
The Angel Stone
3
The purely imaginative or fanciful, and here belongs the so-called fairy story.
Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic
4
The thought of the fairy story flashed back into the lawyer's mind.
Red-Robin
5
It was a fairy night, and the thing was a fairy story.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
1
Do you expect me to believe any such cock-and-bull story as that?
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
2
Then he asked himself: Do you really believe this cock-and-bull story?
Spiral
3
This is the third time you have given me the same cock-and-bull story.
Autobiography of a Yogi
4
It's only going to sound like some cock-and-bull story to them.
The Dreaming Place
5
So he came here to drink my ale, and tell his cock-and-bull story.
Put Yourself in His Place
1
The wicked slaves expended their pent up emotions in song and dance.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
2
SOCRATES: Again; you sometimes accompany the lyre with the song and dance?
Alcibiades I
3
On her withdrawal the chorus break once more into song and dance.
The Greek View of Life
4
Music and song and dance, with cymbals, and stringed instruments, and drums.
The Tarn of Eternity
5
It's not just a song and dance that raises Brett's spirits, though.
The South African
Usage of fairy tale in English
1
This is the real Indian fairy tale of the birth of Mon-daw-min.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
2
It was like a fairy tale come true, for both of them.
Journey
3
You can't disguise yourself-anymore than the Princess in the fairy tale.
Red Pepper's Patients / With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in...
4
She saw a new world, like a vision in a fairy tale.
Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid
5
The environment struck them as the setting of an unfriendly fairy tale.
Death of a Red Heroine
6
He read them a fairy tale about a message in a bottle.
The half-made world
7
From this point, the story becomes more of a common fairy tale.
The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beo...
8
They drink it down like a child absorbing its first fairy tale.
The Native Son
9
But no Prince Charming has ever lived out of a fairy tale.
Within the Tides: Tales
10
They think that to write a new fairy tale is easy work.
The Lilac Fairy Book
11
Seems like a fairy tale to be able to help you now.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
12
That there should be a Black Sultan sounds like a fairy tale.
The Golden Silence
13
Everything that you tell me about him is like a fairy tale.
Contrary Mary
14
She felt as if she were a part of a fairy tale.
Accidentally the sheikh's wife
15
His impression again was that of being in a fairy tale world.
Here comes trouble
16
This story, though it reads like a fairy tale, is nevertheless true.
Indian Ghost Stories / Second Edition
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