tall talk
Example Sentences
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Some describe the events over the last week as a betrayal — evidence that, despite tall talk of support and inclusion, their employer will abandon them when push comes to shove.
From The Verge • Jul. 12, 2018
Not even Texas tall talk can exaggerate the waterway's real importance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prospect of modification has caused a frenzy of excitement among brewers, ex-brewers and would-be brewers There has been tall talk of hundreds of millions to be spent on expanding and modernizing present equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite all the tall talk that there would be no new legislation, the Kennedy Administration had begun working up a wheat bill before the President's death to avert a politically damaging decline in farm income.
From Time Magazine Archive
Can’t you get him to stand out, and, Alured, can’t you—fetch along that old tall talk mummy?
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
