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Tall tale   /tɔl teɪl/   Listen
Tall tale

noun
1.
An improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story.





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"Tall tale" Quotes from Famous Books



... shut your eyes!' So we did, and next thing we knew we were floating on our backs in the sea as calm and cool as cucumbers, and the raft was bobbing about, and you know the rest. At least, we suppose you do. That's what we want to know. Hugh told us the Time- traveller yarn. It sounds a fairly tall tale, but we've heard taller from chaps who were at the front. The point is, how can we go back? London is a ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... down here, Mr. Dillingham, lemme take the book out of the chair. I was just reading to the Missus and the kids a book Skeeter brought home from Sunday School, all about Dan'l and the lions' den. Tall tale that, Mr. Dillingham. About one of the raciest animal articles I ever ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice


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