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
Seven o'clock came and Huey Long began to twit Senators about dinner engagements, then to tempt them with tall talk about food.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Vision, like all of Yeats's philosophizing, is full of 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
I tell you what, Mr Cargrim,' said Tinkler, rising in rigid military fashion, 'it's my opinion that there is too much tall talk about this case.
From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus
