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fish story

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fish story and fish tale
Fig. a great big lie. (Like a fisherman who exaggerates the size of the fish that got away.) That's just a fish story. Don't try to fool me. He's a master at the fish tale. Maybe he should be a politician.
See also: fish, story


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But thank goodness for good files and old pictures, both of which are especially useful in jogging one's memories from one era to another, especially when you've got an unusually good fish story to tell.
In Striper Wars: An American Fish Story (Island Press, $26.
The animated ``Shark Tale,'' featuring the voice of Will Smith as an undersea small fry who tells a big fish story, put the bite on the box office with a $47.
 
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