spin a yarn

Miller can still spin a yarn some four years after retiring following a 30-year run as NBC’s unfiltered lead analyst.

Spoiler alert: Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are likable guys, who can spin a yarn.

Hours after Joe Biden launched his 2020 campaign by attacking President Trump for his response to a deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the president began to spin a yarn.

Being a pro, she was able to spin a yarn out of this inelegant question, and explained how it was supposed to be a three or four month shoot, but the filming went for six months.

A parent might spin a yarn about how Johnny’s relatives came to visit and he didn’t feel like kissing anyone, but the relatives were a little insulted.