tall-talking
Example Sentences
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But a “Who’s bigger?” feud with North Carolina can’t compare with squaring off against tall-talking Texas.
From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2015
Perot, a modest, semi-Spartan type of man, was not suffering from Wall Street's disenchantment with certain tall-talking Texas business leaders.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meantime, at the very moment when German tall-talking was at its height, and when Little Caesar down in Rome was threatening to stop talking and shoot, the British were given a new reassurance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Francis J. Dillon, A. F. of L.'s tall-talking Detroit organizer, "hoped for" a speedy settlement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the sins of commission which novel-writers not seldom perpetrate, is the sin of grandiloquence, or tall-talking, against which, for my part, I will offer up a special libera me.
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
