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tall tale

Noun CEFR B2
tɔːl ˈteɪl

Definitions

A tale or story which is fantastic and greatly exaggerated; also, an account of questionable veracity; a lie, an untruth.

idiomatic

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Examples

“He returned on Monday with a tall tale about a 100-pound fish⟳ he had caught.”
“The head-in-sand idea is a threadbare, 2,000-year-old hand-me-down from the Roman naturalist Pliny, who sometimes passed on tall tales.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

tall thistle Tall White tall-case clock tall-poppy syndrome Talladega Talladega County

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