tall tale

Most of the stories were tall tales and urban legends told to entertain or to score some popularity.

The spokesperson added: "We stand ready to annihilate Ms Pisciotta's tall tales before a jury − an exoneration so inevitable that even she, lost in her fog of fantasy, must surely see it coming."

He delights in tall tales of a Barbary lion that has escaped Northern Africa and now roams the streets of Paris.

But you have to wonder whether his mother told him a tall tale as a child to comfort him.

A father’s fantastical tall tales aim to ease the pain of separation in this auspicious first feature inspired by director Klaudia Reynicke’s childhood in 1990s Lima, Peru.