fish story
Example Sentences
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The advantages of eating seafood as you get older — it’s no fish story put out by Big Sushi.
From Washington Post
A crackling fish story in which the narrator loses his girl to a guy who “moves a lot of concrete on the QVC,” then gets hired by a bar owner to rob an apartment, only to discover, after the robbery and a brawl, that his new boss — nah, that would ruin it.
From New York Times
In Allan Sekula’s book “Fish Story,” a volume of essays and photographs produced between 1989 and 1995, the writer and photographer trains his lens on ports, harbors, and the workers who pilot ships between them; he reveals dim shipboard workspaces and otherworldly industrial zones.
From The New Yorker
Like a big fish story, Shane Lowry’s birdie putt for Ireland at the World Cup kept getting longer, thanks to his partner.
From Washington Times
Consider the big fish story to be told about the paiche, a freshwater monster that looks like a carp, but far larger and prehistoric-looking.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
