fish story

• POS: Noun Phrase

THESAURUS

fish story

big talk, blague, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fancy talk, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fine talk, flam, flimflam, gas, ghost story, half-truth, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, pious fiction, prevarication, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale, tall talk, taradiddle, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, yarn

ROGET THESAURUS

fish story

Exaggeration

N exaggeration, expansion, hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring, high coloring, caricature, caricatura, extravagance, Baron Munchausen, men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale, fish story, gooseberry, storm in a teacup, much ado about nothing, puff, puffery, rant, figure of speech, facon de parler, stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination, flight of fancy, false coloring, aggravation, exaggerated, overwrought, bombastic, hyperbolical, on stilts, fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying, hyperbolically, excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.