tall tale

The essence of the tall tale was that it was told.

the end of this lesson, you will be able to tell a tall tale.

The tall tale , which had been popular in America since Colonial days , spread west to reach inspired heights of mendacity .

sort with its gorgeous metaphors, became in its burlesque moments a variant of the tall tale.

These realistic details set us up for the tall-tale exaggeration of the weather being so hot that corn started to pop.

For those of you who love a tall tale, the list of genetic variations that determine human height has just experienced a growth spurt.

The woman's story of survival after going 20 days without food sounds like a tall tale to me.

But tall-tale-tellers have never hesitated to rewrite Lincoln's biography.

Today we tell a traditional American story called a "tall tale. "

So, as the song goes, do short people really have no reason to live, or is that a tall tale?

Joke and tall tale tellers play with language.

Exaggeration is what makes a tall tale.

In America, there is a traditional story called a "tall tale" .

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