spin a yarn
spin a yarn
Meaning:
- to tell a tale
- to tell a long & fanciful story
- to tell an unbelievable lengthy story
Example:
- Kids like to have their grandparents spin a yarn for them.
- His sister always spins a yarn about her childhood.
- Her father has to spin a yarn each night to make his daughter sleep else she would start crying
- There are stories about courage of many warriors. Who knows if they are just spinning yarns.
- Don’t you think most of the saints spin a yarn when narrating the mystic stories? They probably do it to deliver that one message of truth.
- I do not believe him. He has old habit of spinning yarns about his school days.
- He gets happy on being insisted about his spinning yarns. He doesn’t know that everyone is making a fool of him while doing so.
Origin:
The expression is nautical in origin and has been used in this sense since the early 19th century owing its life to the fact that it consists of a dual meaning, yarn denote both “spun fiber” and “a tale”.
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