We can place some reliance on courts in being able to distinguish between a tall story, a good story and a true story.
In which country could we tell a tall story like this?
He explained its provisions quizzically and delightfully, as though he were applying for membership of the tall story club.
That seems to me rather a tall story, but still it may be correct.
Tell us another tall story.
It is a tall story, to be sure, but it could have happened.
Whether this man was a mutant or this is a tall story is unclear.
Each song suggests a fragment of a screenplay: an encounter, a missed opportunity, tall stories told through a haze of alcohol and smoke.