All tall tale synonyms

noun tall tale

• chestnut — A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• joke — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
• anecdote — An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• fibbery — The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
• yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
• cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.