Translation for 'tall story' from English to Icelandic

tall story

ýkjusaga {kv}

• 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".

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• 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.

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