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fable; invention; concoction; yarn; romance; malarkey; fairy tale; tall tale (ЛВ); tall story; cock-and-bull story (an absurd, unbelievable story); a blind story; nonentity; idle story; swinger | |||
fiction | |||
cock and bull tale (Bobrovska) | |||
malarky | |||
banger; cuffer; ackamarackus (Anglophile); ackamaracka (Anglophile) | |||
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fish story; bedtime story; concoction; tell stories; old wives' tales (Valentina_G); cock-and-bull story | |||
bogus stories; storytelling | |||
concoction of lies (Val_Ships) | |||
fairytale; yarn; wild tales (BroKE) | |||
bedtime stories | |||
ducktales (urbandictionary.com Drezzzina) | |||
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fairy story; a tall story (a story which is hard to believe • He is always telling tall stories); fairy-story (an untrue statement; a lie • I don't want to hear any fairy-stories) |
небылица : 60 phrases in 10 subjects |
Figure of speech | 1 |
General | 31 |
Idiomatic | 1 |
Informal | 2 |
Ironical | 1 |
Jargon | 1 |
Literature | 1 |
Makarov | 19 |
Music | 2 |
Proverb | 1 |