fish tale

Definitions

1. 1

   Synonym of fish story (“tall tale”).

   • He's a hunter, took a week off, all loaded down with guns and the like, and he refuses to tell even a "fish" tale about it. Mr. William Mills has returned to the place from whence he came. We are told he landed a berth with the[…]
   • She felt in her heart that Gary was telling a fish tale about the finger marks, but then again, there was the possibility he was telling the truth. She finally decided that Christopher had been abused once or twice, but not on a[…]
   • "Sure enough, she and Major Dewart came tromping in, with a fish tale about a flat tire."

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