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fish story
(redirected from fish tale)

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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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I hoped The Last Fish Tale would match Cod's bravura, bringing the plight of the Atlantic fisheries to a broad audience.
Stanton made his directorial debut five years ago with "Finding Nemo," a gorgeous father-and-son fish tale that he co-wrote.
AUBURN - A Leicester man who spent yesterday casting his line into a pond in Auburn is telling a story about the big one that got away - but it's no fish tale.
 
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