tall talk
Example Sentences
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Some describe the events over the last week as a betrayal — evidence that, despite tall talk of support and inclusion, their employer will abandon them when push comes to shove.
From The Verge ● Jul. 12, 2018
A Vision, like all of Yeats's philosophizing, is full of tall talk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alabama's Governor George Wallace for weeks has been bursting with tall talk.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is the tall talk of a tall man, and one who drew himself up to his full Irish height to speak.
From Time Magazine Archive
How long can you have lived?" old lady Chia added smilingly, "and how many kinds of things can you have met, that you indulge in this tall talk?
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
