noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
monsters of fable and legend
▪
My favorite is the fable of the race between the tortoise and the hare.
▪
The best-known of Aesop's fables is "The Tortoise and the Hare'.
▪
The life of Howard Hughes cannot fail to remind us of the fable of Midas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
And Notes from Underground is precisely such a fable of disembodied consciousness.
▪
In several fables the kelpie appears as a handsome young prince, who lures maidens to a watery fate worse than death.
▪
The result is a dark, intoxicating fable about the limits of imagination and the power of memory.
▪
This is just a fable to frighten the children with a bit of free preaching thrown in.
▪
You made it a kind of fable .