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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

draw the long bow en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To exaggerate; to tell tall tales.
    • […] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 16:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
draws the long bow Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
drawn the long bow Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drawing the long bow Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drew the long bow Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

throw the hatchet · pull the long bow · draw a long bow