tall story
noun [C usually singular]Definition
› a story or fact that is difficult to believe: After dinner she told me a tall story about her pet.Accounts and storiesSummaries and summarising
(Definition of tall story noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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