| 释义 |
tall story; tall tale
noun
an elaborate lie; an (enjoyable) exaggeration UK, 1846- Klaus Manderfeld always was a great one for tall stories. — Charles B. Macdonald, A Time fot Trumpets, p. 95, 1985
- Albert Finney is Edward, a retired travelling salesman on his deathbed who has, all his life, regaled his son [...] with surreal tall tales of his early life as one of nature’s “big fish”[.] — The Guardian, 23 January 2004
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