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fanciful tale
noun as in cock-and-bull story
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Beginning Aug. 16, guests will be able to check out a box filled with instructions and ephemera, such as magnifying glasses, and explore a fanciful tale.
Beginning Aug. 16, guests will be able to check out a box filled with instructions and ephemera, such as magnifying glasses, and explore a fanciful tale.
In return, the activists have called Disney “stupid” and mocked its purported turnaround as “a fanciful tale.”
But, led by the now-fired Tucker Carlson of Fox News, right-wing conspiracists have spun out a fanciful tale about how Epps was secretly working for the FBI in a plot to trick conservatives into rioting.
A “fanciful tale” in the words of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, “a story too good to confirm.”
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