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 Translation for 'tall story' from English to French
NOUN   a tall story | tall stories
galéjade {f}tall story
salade {f} [fam.] [mensonge]tall story [Br.] [coll.]
fable {f} [mensonge]tall story [coll.]
4 Words
C'est la sardine qui a bouché le port de Marseille. [loc.]That's a tall story. [idiom]
Partial Matches
littérat.
récit {m} encadré
story-within-the-story
grand {adj}tall
bot.T
adonis {m} d'été [Adonis aestivalis, syn. : A. phoenicea]
tall adonis
sornettes {f.pl}tall stories
haut {adj} [bâtiment, herbe, arbre]tall [building, grass, tree]
2
hort.
horloge {f} comtoise
tall-case clock [grandfather clock]
être grand pour son âgeto be tall for one's age
témoignage {m}story
histoire {f}story
5
récit {m} [narration]story
8
arch.constr.
étage {m}
story [Am.]
relig.
conte {m} de Noël
Christmas story
histoire {f} vécuetrue story
littérat.
histoire {f} d'amour
love story
dr.littérat.
roman {m} policier
detective story
relig.
conte {m} de Noël
nativity story
relig.
histoire {f} de Noël
Christmas story
littérat.
conte {m}
short story
arch.constr.
niveau {m} [étage]
story [Am.]
journ.
canular {m}
false story
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Usage Examples English
  • His articles in Time magazine include "A Tall story for our time" (1996) and "Live and Let Die" (1998).
  • Furphy's popularity may have influenced the usage of the Australian slang word "furphy", meaning a "tall story".
  • "A Chinese Tall Story" (...) is a 2005 Hong Kong fantasy adventure film written and directed by Jeffrey Lau. The story is loosely based on the 16th-century novel "Journey to the West".
  • A contemporary review in Kirkus Reviews called it "A kind of classic small tall story (in latrine language)".
  • James Nicoll has commented that it is "apparently based on an urban legend". In fact, it is essentially a science-fictional retelling of a traditional tall story called "The Shovewood".

  • His supporting roles in Hong Kong films, such as "The Twins Effect II", "A Chinese Tall Story" and "Kung Fu Dunk" pushed his stardom to regions beyond Taiwan.
  • The tall story of Algerian corsairs and a five-year captivity in North Africa, not to mention the fortuitous escape of the entire crew, was considered too far-fetched to be true.
  • Hairston also hosted a celebrity golf tournament and had a small role in the 1981 "Happy Days" episode "Tall Story," where he played the father of an epileptic high school basketball player.
  • Whether this man was a mutant or this is a tall story is unclear.
  • The "Story of Soup-Kaspar" is parodied in Astrid Lindgren's "Pippi Longstocking" (1945), with a tall story about a Chinese boy named Peter who refuses to eat a swallow's nest served to him by his father, and dies of starvation five months later.

  • Bayfield released "A Very Tall Story", a memoir of his rugby days, on Sept. 15, 2022.
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