fish story

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"The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about," Wallace noted.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2023

The production reminds us of this when dancers wielding IV bags emerge during his fish story.

From New York Times • May 6, 2022

So this tale about a bird also became a big fish story.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 27, 2020

If you’re looking for a moral to this fish story, maybe it’s this: Don’t doubt Carter.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2019

To identify it with Newfoundland is to brand the description as a "fish story," but from such a conclusion there seems anyway to be no escape.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John