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tall
informal Exaggerated, embellished, or untrue. My father loved telling tall tales about his days working as a cowboy. I know tall talk when I hear it, so there's no way Joe wrestled an alligator on his vacation.
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tall
1. mod. high on drugs; intoxicated with marijuana. (Drugs.) When Jerry gets a little tall, he gets overwhelmed with a sense of guilt.
2. mod. high-quality. You’re bringing in some tall ideas, man.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- a tall order
- a tall poppy
- a tall story
- a tall tale
- be a tall drink of water
- be a tall glass of water
- be a tall order
- be in tall cotton
- be tall in (one's)/the saddle
- big drink of water
- great/tall oaks from little acorns grow
- head for (the) tall timber
- head for tall timber
- in high cotton
- in tall cotton
- it's a tall order
- long-tall-Sally
- not as (something) as all that
- not as bad, tall, etc. as all that
- ride tall in the/(one's) saddle
- sit tall in the/(one's) saddle
- stand tall
- take to the tall timber(s)
- tall
- tall drink
- tall drink of water
- tall glass of water
- tall in the saddle
- tall one
- tall order
- tall poppy
- tall poppy syndrome
- tall story
- tall tale
- tall talk
- tall timber
- tall timbers
- tall, dark, and handsome
- tell a tall tale
- ten foot tall and bulletproof
- that's a tall order
- walk tall
- walk tall, to
- yay tall
- yea tall