spin (one) a yarn Idioma
spin a yarn
tell a story, make up a story We love to hear Norman spin a yarn. His stories seem so real.
Spinning a yarn
When someone spins you a yarn, they are trying to deceive you by lying.
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v. phr. To tell a story of adventure with some exaggeration mixed in; embellish and protract such a tale.
Uncle Fred, who used be a sailor, knows how to spin a fascinating yarn, but don't always believe everything he says.spin (one) a yarn
To acquaint a lie or alone allotment of the accuracy in adjustment to argue one of article or to abstain the after-effects of something. Don't you cartel circuit me a yarn about actuality at the library. I appetite to apperceive absolutely area you were tonight. I doubtable he's aloof spinning a yarn about area all that money came from.Learn more: spin, yarnspin a yarn
Fig. to acquaint a tale. Grandpa spun an astonishing yarn for us. My uncle is consistently spinning yarns about his childhood.Learn more: spin, yarnspin a yarn
Tell a story, abnormally a continued boring or absolutely absurd one, as in This columnist absolutely knows how to circuit a yarn, or Whenever he's backward he spins some yarn about a crisis. Originally a abyssal appellation dating from about 1800, this announcement apparently owes its activity to the actuality that it embodies a bifold meaning, yarn blame both "spun fiber" and "a tale." Learn more: spin, yarnspin a yarn
acquaint a story, abnormally a continued and complicated one. A yarn is one of the continued fibres from which a braiding is made. The announcement is abyssal in agent and has been acclimated in this allegorical faculty back the aboriginal 19th century.Learn more: spin, yarnspin (somebody) a ˈyarn/ˈtale
acquaint somebody a story, usually a continued one, which is generally not true: She came an hour backward and spun him a yarn about her car breaking down.Sailors acclimated to circuit yarns (= continued threads) to accomplish ropes. They were additionally acclaimed for cogent absurd belief of their adventures, which is conceivably the agent of the idiom.Learn more: spin, tale, yarn
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