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Examples:automated teller machine (ATM)—fortune-teller who uses the subject's face for his prognostication—Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and story-teller, reported author of Aesop's fables—do trade as a fortune teller—tell fox ghost stories around a bonfire and incite rebellion—lit. cannot tell beans from wheat (idiom); fig. ignorant of practical matters—tell fortune by reading the subject's facial features—fig. You can't tell the really dangerous enemy from his external appearance.—the dead cannot testify (idiom); dead men tell no tales—Take what you hear be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.—believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.—can't tell black from white (idiom); unable distinguish wrong from right— |