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☆ fish story

Informal an unbelievable story; exaggeration

Etymology: from the conventional exaggeration by fishermen of the size of fish that escaped being caught

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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