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draw the long bow

verb

Definitions

  1. To exaggerate

    To exaggerate; to tell tall tales.

    • […] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.

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