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Significados de tall tale em inglês

A retelling or account of events, especially a fictional or exaggerated one.

        Uso de tall tale em inglês
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        So why do we need to embellish, to build a tall tale?
        Ebony
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        Given the tensions of the times, this tall tale was, on occasion, believed.
        The Irish Times
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        Many say it's a harmless and fun tall tale worth celebrating.
        Reuters
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        The mischievous Michael Gambon has been known to spin the odd tall tale.
        The Irish Times
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        The tardy must make do with a substitute and invent another tall tale.
        The Irish Times
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        That's a fantasy, a tall tale, and a heresy at that!
        The Hyperion Cantos
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        That's a tall tale you're spinning, and I don't believe it for a second.
        Clementine
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        But what I do not believe is your tall tale about a buried treasure.
        The hangman's daughter
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        The photoshopped memes of a bygone era: tall tale postcards.
        The Irish Times
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        Ziegler draws gingerly upon this source, always aware of Sitwell's love of a tall tale.
        The new yorker
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        Charlie Sumners thought the whole thing was a fabrication on Meyer's part, just another tall tale.
        Big bosoms and square jaws
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        I didn't think any less of you for telling me a bit of a tall tale.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
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        And now a tall tale from Wellington Zoo.
        Radio NZ
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        To tell you the truth, Pendergast, I'd rather suspected it of being just another Holmesian tall tale.
        White fire
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        His tall tale was entirely made up.
        Rock and Ice Magazine
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        It sounds a fairly tall tale, but we've heard taller from chaps who were at the front.
        The Happy Adventurers
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