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Meanings of tall tale in английском

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

Usage of tall tale in английском
1
So why do we need to embellish, to build a tall tale?
Ebony
2
Given the tensions of the times, this tall tale was, on occasion, believed.
The Irish Times
3
Many say it's a harmless and fun tall tale worth celebrating.
Reuters
4
The mischievous Michael Gambon has been known to spin the odd tall tale.
The Irish Times
5
The tardy must make do with a substitute and invent another tall tale.
The Irish Times
6
That's a fantasy, a tall tale, and a heresy at that!
The Hyperion Cantos
7
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
9
The photoshopped memes of a bygone era: tall tale postcards.
The Irish Times
10
Ziegler draws gingerly upon this source, always aware of Sitwell's love of a tall tale.
The new yorker
11
Charlie Sumners thought the whole thing was a fabrication on Meyer's part, just another tall tale.
Big bosoms and square jaws
12
I didn't think any less of you for telling me a bit of a tall tale.
The Wise Man’s Fear
13
And now a tall tale from Wellington Zoo.
Radio NZ
14
To tell you the truth, Pendergast, I'd rather suspected it of being just another Holmesian tall tale.
White fire
15
His tall tale was entirely made up.
Rock and Ice Magazine
16
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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