Sentences with phrase «spin tall tales»

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It's all in service of a tall tale being told by an ancient Indian (Johnny Depp) who may or may not be Tonto, a sideshow attraction who spins this yarn to a little boy (Mason Cook) wearing a Lone Ranger get - up in a fair in 1930s San Francisco.

Most of all, he is an inveterate aphorist, ever eager to illustrate his points by spinning tales — most of them presumably tall.

Suzanna grew up in rural South Carolina (really rural) and survived on her mother's library, local ghost stories, and the tall tales her father spun for his children's amusement.

Oliver Evans spent his youth spinning one tall tale after another until it got him over his head in trouble.

While creating this body of work, Holliday considered the mythology of weaving and the way in which the terminology has become associated with lofty themes of creation and change — spinning the thread of time, the fabric of the universe and yarn as synonym for a tall tale.

Be aware that those jobs figures you hear floating around are the stuff of thoroughly - debunked myth, and that the GOP politicians who are telling the tall tales have a direct, vested interest in spinning those yarns.