stretch the truth
verbDefinitions
To exaggerate, often to the point where the truth is obscured or lost.
- It would stretch the truth, but perhaps not tear it to tatters, to say that World War II was fought over oil.
- You think they exaggerate sometimes? You think they embellish things, stretch the truth, play loose with the facts?
- "And you suspect them of stretching the truth? Or shrinking the truth?"
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