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n.
tale
1) to narrate, tell a ~
2) to carry, circulate, print, run a ~ (all the newspapers carried the ~ about the fire)
3) to edit; rewrite; write a ~
4) to concoct, fabricate, invent, make up a ~
5) to change, revise; embellish, embroider a ~
6) to cover up, hush up, kill, suppress a ~
7) a boring; charming; cock-and-bull, farfetched; coherent; complicated, involved; dirty, off-color, risque (risqué); funny, humorous; gripping; implausible; improbable; juicy; likely, plausible; long; sob; true; ugly; untold ~
8) a bedtime, children's, fairy; detective; ghost; hard-luck; love ~
9) a breaking ('very new'); cover; exclusive; feature; front-page; human-interest ~; the inside ~
10) conflicting stories (they told conflicting stories to the police)
11) a shaggy dog ~ ('a long rambling joke with an illogical punch line')
12) a short ~ ('a short prose narrative')
13) the whole ~ (who knows the whole ~ of the incident?)
14) a ~ breaks ('becomes known'); circulates
15) a ~ about, of (she told charming stories about her travels; to narrate gripping stories of wartime heroism)
16) a ~ that + clause (have you heard the ~ that she intends to resign?)
background information
17) to get the (whole) ~
misc.
18) the police could not make a coherent ~ out of his ravings; a success ~ ('a successful career')
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storey n.
floor level
a lower; top; upper ~