- tall story (or tale)
- tall story (or tale)an account that is fanciful and difficult to believe.→ tall
English new terms dictionary. 2014.
tall story (or tale)
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tall story — UK US noun [countable] [singular tall story plural tall stories] british informal something that someone tells you that sounds so exciting, dangerous, unpleasant etc that you do not believe it is true. The American word is tall tale … Useful english dictionary
tall\ story — • tall story • tall tale See: fish story … Словарь американских идиом
tall story — tall stories N COUNT A tall story is the same as a tall tale … English dictionary
tall story — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms tall story : singular tall story plural tall stories British informal something that someone tells you that sounds so exciting, dangerous, unpleasant etc that you do not believe it is true. The American word is … English dictionary
tall story — Synonyms and related words: big talk, blague, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cock and bull story, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fancy talk, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fine talk, fish story, flam, flimflam, gas, ghost story … Moby Thesaurus
tall story — /tɔl ˈstɔri/ (say tawl stawree) noun a far fetched or incredible tale; snake yarn. Also, tall tale. {US English colloquialism (1890s), from earlier tall grandiloquent, exaggerated} …
tall story — or[tale] {n. phr.} See: FISH STORY … Dictionary of American idioms
tall story — or[tale] {n. phr.} See: FISH STORY … Dictionary of American idioms
tall story — noun A tale or an account of questionable veracity; a lie … Wiktionary
tall story — Exaggerated or incredible tale … A concise dictionary of English slang
