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idiomtalelive to tell the taleused in order to say that someone is still alive after a dangerous experience, and often used humorously when the experience is not really dangerous:Morley was a journalist who lived among the beggars, drunks, and drug users of Washington and lived to tell the tale. She worked as a Playboy bunny, and lived to tell the tale in a TV movie.an old wives' taleused about a piece of advice, for example about health problems, that people believed in former times, but that most people now think is not true:Daughters still turn to their mothers when they are worried about their children's health, though all the experts warn about believing old wives' tales.Some say if the sky turns red in the evening it won't rain the next day, but I think that's an old wives' tale.tells a/the tale(also sth tells its own tale)used in order to say that something you see, especially something you read or someone's behaviour, makes the truth about a situation clear:The worried expression on Helen's face told its own tale.I could see that the hotel was failing - the register at the desk told the tale.A day driving one of these jeeps over Spain's hilly, winding roads, told a convincing tale - its road-holding was superb.
See:- a fish tale
- a tale never loses in the telling
- a tall tale
- an old wives' tale
- Banbury tale
- fairy tale
- fish story
- fish tale
- live to tell the tale
- old wives' tale
- spin (one) a tale
- spin (one) a yarn
- spin a yarn/tale
- spirit away
- spirit off
- tale never loses in the telling
- tale of woe
- tall tale
- tell a different story
- tell a different tale
- tell a different, another, etc. tale/story
- tell a/the tale
- tell another tale
- tell its own story
- tell its own tale
- tell its own tale/story
- tell tales
- tell the same tale (of something)
- tell the same tale/story
- tell the tale
- thereby hangs a tale
- thereby hangs lies a tale
- thereby lies a tale
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