stretch a point

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stretch a point and stretch the point

Fig. to interpret a point flexibly and with great latitude. Would it be stretching a point to suggest that everyone is invited to your picnic? To say that everyone is invited is stretching the point.

See also: point, stretch

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If you stretch a point, we are relations, of course, but so distant that one cannot really take cognizance of it. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context Nobody could say his father and mother had NOT been married after that, and whether, under the circumstances, they would stretch a point or not about lending him the money (he thought they would), he had his answer ready at all events, if a question was ever raised about his right to the name and the estate. The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context And Ames, the faithful Ames, no doubt he will stretch a point for me. The Valley of Fear by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context			stranger to strangle at birth strap strap down strap in strap on to strapped for straw straw in the wind straw man stray stray in stray onto streak streak across streak of bad luck streak of good luck stream stream down stream in street street smarts strength stress stretch stretch a point stretch away stretch away to stretch forth stretch legs stretch money stretch out stretch out to stretch the truth stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach strew strew on strew over strew with strictly strictly business strictly speaking stride stride in stride out of strike strike a balance strike a bargain strike a blow against strike a blow for strike a chord			stressing stressing stressing Stressing Cement stressing end stressless stressless stressless stressless Stressman Stressnil stressor stressor stressor stressor Stressor Scale for Pediatric Oncology Nurses stressors stressors stressors stressors stretch stretch stretch stretch stretch stretch stretch (one's) legs stretch (one's) legs stretch (one's) legs stretch (one's) legs stretch a point stretch along Stretch Arm Strong stretch away stretch away to stretch blt stretch fault stretch former stretch forming stretch forth stretch forth Stretch Glass Society Stretch Individual Retirement Account Stretch Individual Retirement Accounts stretch injury stretch injury stretch injury stretch injury stretch IRA Stretch IRAs stretch it stretch legs stretch legs stretch legs stretch legs stretch legs stretch limo Stretch limousine Stretch limousine stretch mark stretch mark

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