Sekirov Dictionary

draw the long bow

verb1

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To exaggerate; to tell tall tales.
- […] 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. — 1922

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