Sentences with phrase «tell tall tales»

Lying that is probably not a serious problem: Young children (ages 4 - 5) often make up stories and tell tall tales.

At night, the fire pit makes a great place to swap stories and tell tall tales.

He explains in the book that this place has been described to him and an assistant he calls his «boy John Clement» during a diplomatic mission by a sailor who likes to tell tall tales.

Grandpa was born in the Southwest in 1901 and he loved to tell tall tales of how he'd been a cowboy in his younger days.

Chad Point is, people tend to tell tall tales about famous people.

Zealous prosecutors claimed to be stamping out an epidemic of abuse, child - abuse experts coached and coerced young children to tell tall tales, psychologists peddled fantastic theories to juries, and judges caved in to pressures to «protect the children.»

Clearly lacks an understanding of the universe and tells tall tales of their heroes.

Anyone who says otherwise is telling a tall tale.

That evangelist is probably still traveling around telling his tall tales and whipping up fervor and offerings.

The folks living in the Roman Empire were not above telling tall tales.

But I'm not just telling you tall tales over here, gloating about this great new cookbook that I have and you don't.

Except... when we're so exhausted that we can't possibly remember what it is we wanted to do the next time our child climbed on the counter, pulled the dog's tail, told a tall tale, or just wouldn't go to sleep!

He did several suspense films, including Johnny Allegro and Dangerous Profession, but it was his work on The Window that earned Tetzlaff a permanent place in the memories of filmgoers — a dark, chilling, and suspenseful thriller, based on the fable of the boy - who - cried - wolf, this film, about a young boy (Bobby Driscoll) known for telling tall tales, who witnesses a murder in his tenement building and can't get anyone to believe him, was an instant hit.

That's not just Zelnick telling tall tales, either.

The no - nonsense journalist William can't connect with his father, who has spent his life telling tall tales of his youthful exploits.

Taking a distinctly right - wing point of view when considering the not inconsiderable problems with the American justice system, it shamelessly pushes all the right emotional buttons as it tells the tall tale of the... Read More»

As Prince tells his tall tales, ranging from hilarious to horrific, Scorsese keeps up a dialogue with both subject and crew.

Italian Spice — Gavin Farmer tries out a 1959 Lancia Appia Zagato that spent nearly 40 years in America before being rebuilt in Australia / Ground Breaker — Douglas Blain slips into the cockpit of a priceless Type S Grand Prix Delage / Stoop's Sebring — Michael Bowler looks back at 10 years» ownership of one of the three historic Frazer Nash Sebrings / Ripple Over the Water — Malcolm Tucker tells the story of a Rolls - Royce that might have been / Atlanta's Golden Apples — Further reminiscences of Richard Gaylard Shattock about his Atlanta racing days as told by Anthony Pritchard / The Grimsby Giant — Michael Worthington - Williams tells the tall tale of the Lloyd made in Grimsby / Ballot Breeding — After the Great War Ernest Ballot embarked on a racing programme to promote his proprietary engines.

From under the flat brim, Block's sullen stare misleads: he cannily controls the narrative, telling tall tales of adventure and conquest.

Saturday night is always a blast around the campfire telling tall tales, meeting new friends and experiencing the best lifestyle on the planet.

Whilst many other travellers are hanging around in traveller bars telling tall tales about how they like to go places where travellers don't, we are there, taking shots and doing more for the local economy by making the odd contribution to locals for taking their pictures.

Where Matthew Ritchie could stand for the hordes of installation artists now crossing media, telling tall tales, and trashing galleries, here he settles for abstract scrawls along the upper ramp.

(Note that the Joker is a sailor — the one who usually tells tall tales about what he's seen at sea.)

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.

Mitch Kowalski, who joined the Slaw team this year, just released a book this year which tells this tall tale.

Telling Tall Tales.

Many sellers want the best selling Realtor (possibly the one who will tell the tallest tales about one's listing?)

Not exact matches

Because someone dear to the beliver told them this fairy tale and they can't handle the truth that their religion is fictional tall tales because they think, most likely their parents would tell them something that isn't bogus but it is.

when they open their mouths they tell the same tall tales the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Persians and Hindus told.

I've been looking for proof since I was six when my parents put into church and told me to believe in all these religious tall tales.

You just keep telling yourself that, and maybe your tall tale will come true.

Your kids already know how to tell some pretty tall tales, butthis game redirects their creativity in a more positive direction.Roll the dice and then come up with a story that connects the nineimages.

We never found any sign of that duck though there is still a tall tale told that she lives in the wild of the woods on our property.

i guess the only people interested in listening to Mr. 9 -1-1 are southerners, prob» ly the last group buying the tall tales he tells.

You'll be amazed at the tall tales we've been told in the name of «healthy eating.»

You may be tempted to exaggerate or tell a few tall tales but think about how you'd react if the situation were reversed.

But on its own conventional terms, the film succeeds — maybe not as a «Coen Brothers» movie, but as a tall tale well told.

The story tells the tale of a family of four - inch - tall people, called Borrowers, who live hidden about the humans or beans as they are called in the film.

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.

Landing a second job as a TV personality on Showtime (where his boss is played by Teri Hatcher), Erik is enjoying his newfound respect — especially the look in the eyes of his adoring son Teddy (Dakota Goyo), to whom he's told more than a few tall tales (such as being buddies with John Elway).

Dylan Thomas's poem speaks warmly of the relatives who populated his youthful Christmas and the «tall tales now that we told by the fire».

His parents tell him exciting tales of the time when he will be «strong enough and tall enough and brave enough» not only to leave the burrow, but to sleep in the sea and find friends.

The author is the novelist telling the story, the better the storytelling the better the novel reflecting the tale — some tales are taller than others.

Women are more likely to often tell «tall tales» to their parents than men (43.6 percent vs. 37.4 percent), but men more often fib to friends (44.1 percent vs. 38.3 percent).

Rather than playing games with their imagination, they're playing games with living creatures, charging big prices for their results and telling some pretty tall tales to justify it.

Tall tales are a feature of the Outback, where a «yarn» (Australian slang for a story) can get bigger in the telling.

If you have ever wondered what the end of the world will look like, then hopefully it will be nothing like the tale told in Extinction: a story about the last member of an order formed to battle against mystical 100ft tall Orc beasts known as Raven» ii.

Rare's newest trailer is a little light on actual details, merely hinting at things to come, and takes the form of a tall tale told by «grizzled old soul Merrick» - the pirate whose portrait recently appeared in the ship wreck found on the uncharted island at map coordinates L14.

People are tired of this constant bickering, and tall tales, and childish name calling, and being told not only what to think, but how ti think.

With little or no hard evidence, and the size of the waves often growing with each telling, there is little surprise that scientists long dismissed them as tall tales.