draw the long bow

English

Verb

draw the long bow

  1. To exaggerate; to tell tall tales.
    • James Joyce
      […] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.
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