tall-talking
Example Sentences
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But a “Who’s bigger?” feud with North Carolina can’t compare with squaring off against tall-talking Texas.
From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2015
Perot, a modest, semi-Spartan type of man, was not suffering from Wall Street's disenchantment with certain tall-talking Texas business leaders.
From Time Magazine Archive
All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s�the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage of native Western humor.
From Time Magazine Archive
If John Ringling's tall-talking publicist, Dexter Fellows, knows this, it disturbs him little.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is, after all, rather facile moralising; its rhetorical artifice has been imitated with success in many a prize essay and not a few tall-talking journals.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic
