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Definition: FISH STORY |
FISH STORY1. A story which taxes credulity; an extravagant or incredible narration. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exaggeration | Noun: exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance; (nonsense); Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Fish Story (1972) The Fable of the Fish Story (1923) A Fish Story (1912) Not a Fish Story (2002) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Fishing. Fish story. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fish story | 21 |
a funny fish story | 7 |
christian fish story | 6 |
big fish story | 5 |
child fish story | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FISH STORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hebrew | 'וזמ" (exaggeration, hyperbole, tall story), ב"ות" (fabrication, falsehood, fib, tale). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ishfay orystay.(various references) | |
Russian | охотничий рассказ, 'охотничий рассказ', небылицы (cock-and-bull story), преувеличение (exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement, twister). (various references) | |
Turkish | palavra (applesauce, baloney, boasting, boloney, bounce, braggadocio, bragging, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, cock and bull story, eyewash, flubdub, flummery, gaff, hot air, jazz, lie, palaver, talkee-talkee, tall story), balıkçı masalı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Pisces. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-h-i-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: fortyish. | |
-2 letters: history, shrifts, softish. | |
-3 letters: firsts, firths, foists, fortis, friths, frosts, frosty, froths, frothy, hoists, horsts, ossify, shifts, shifty, shirts, shirty, shorts, shorty, shrift, stroys, thyrsi, toyish, tsoris, yirths. | |
-4 letters: first, firth, fishy, fists, foist, forth, forts, forty, frith, frits, frosh, frost, froth, hissy, hists, hoist, horst, horsy, hosts, rifts, riots, rotis, ryots. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-h-i-o-r-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: forsythias. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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