Meaning of tall tale | Babel Free
/tɔːl ˈteɪl/Definitions
A tale or story which is fantastic and greatly exaggerated; also, an account of questionable veracity; a lie, an untruth.
idiomatic
Equivalents
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.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.