Tall Story Meaning & Sentence Examples

Tall Story Definition, Sentence Examples

TALL STORY MEANING – Find out what a tall story really means. Example sentences of this idiomatic expression can also be found here.

The term derives from boastfulness, which was intended to fool or entertain people. These types of stories were called Munchausens in the 1900s, after an actual person. He was well-liked since he was often telling outrageous stories about himself. Tall Tales were the tales told and retold around the campfire in the United States. It frequently involved mythological people accomplishing impossible things.

In the literary world, the phrase was first used in 1670 in John Eachard’s ‘The Grounds & Occasions of the Clergy’. This became more widespread in Routledge’s Every Boy’s Annual in 1869, which used the phrase as it is now understood.

Meaning:

a story that is difficult to believe
something that is made up to be out of the believability range.
a story that makes claims based on false facts in order to make something appear larger than it is, also known as an exaggerated story

Here are examples of sentences that use tall story:

That is such a tall story because it has been passed down over generations and everyone added something of their own to it. Now, when one hears it, it sounds legendary.
After lunch, Christopher told me a tall story about his pet.
Joseph said he cannot believe everything Benny says since most of them are just tall stories.

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