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a pig might have a long tale but its tail is always short!	A hypocrite always keeps giving excuses & making stories, but his/her supporter & power base are always short! So, if anyone earnestly try to get rid of that hypocrite's tyranny and torcher, that is very much feasible as history supports that hypocrites never win!	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down	An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.	Rate it: (4.00 / 5 votes)
cock-and-bull story	A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
connu! (fam.)	That is an old tale.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
narratio, fabula	a narrative, tale, story.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Old Wives' Tale	False information, usually erroneous belief, traditional unscientific belief, myth	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on fait toujours le loup plus gros qu'il n'est	A tale never loses in the telling.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pie in the sky	A belief that one's wildest dreams shall come true. A devotee, of pie in the sky is prone to believe the most impossible possibility. The taller the tale you can spin, the greater chance he'll buy into it!	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
roman de cape et d'épée	A romantic, melodramatic tale (e.g. Dumas , Les Trois Mousquetaires).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spaghetti western	Nickname for a motion picture produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, depicting a tale of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tall tale	A greatly exaggerated, fantastic story.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tattle tale	The person who calls someone out / tells a piece of sensitive information to an authority.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
une bonne plaisanterie mérite les honneurs du bis	A good tale is none the worse for being told twice.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vous me la donnez (or, baillez) belle (ironic.)	A pretty tale you are telling me; Aren’t you stuffing me up nicely?	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)