a tall story

基本解释

Bush's accusation that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction turned out to be a tall story.
布殊指摘伊拉克拥有大杀伤力武器，原来只是个荒诞不经的“作大”故事。
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Once we have got our bearings, we find we are listening to a tall story about a larger than life fish, that Albert Finney is relating it at his son's, Billy Crudup's wedding.
当我们认清方向，会发现正在聆听艾拔芬尼在其子比利告特的婚礼上，讲述一个较生命还要巨大的大鱼故事。
Talk about a tall story. Tom told me that his aunt and uncle are so fat that when they went to Europe they had to ride in three different airplanes.
汤姆大吹牛皮，他告诉我说，他的婶婶和叔叔太胖了，当他们去欧洲的时候，只好分乘三架不同的飞机。
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The movie tells the story of humans meeting tall blue creatures called Na'vi on a planet called Pandora.
They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."
A tall tale is a story about a person who is larger than life.

Whether that is any more than a tall story remains to be seen.
ECONOMIST: Transistors: A tall story