fish stories
Tales of catches
Fish stories are exaggerated tales, especially boastful accounts of personal exploits.
The term comes from the stereotype of anglers inflating the size of their catches: By the time he finished telling it, that fish story had grown to include a shark.
Any implausible or embellished narrative may be called a fish story: His excuse for being late was another fish story.
Fantastical exaggerated stories
- whoppersOutlandish untruths
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
fabrication · stretching the truth · bragging · boasting · puffery · yarns · bluster · swagger
Brief amusing accounts
- yarnsThreads or tall tales
- talesSpoken or written narratives
- narrativesAccounts of events
- raconteurSkilled storyteller
banter · recounting · regaling · reminiscing · one-upmanship · camaraderie · bonding · oral tradition
One who casts lines
- catchSeize or snag
- record-breakerOne setting new highs
- bassDeep pitch or fish
- troutFreshwater game fish
marlin · weigh-in · measuring · tackle · lure · bait · rod · reel
Traditional stories or icons
- mythsTraditional untrue narratives
- loreTraditional knowledge transmitted orally
- sea monstersMythical ocean creatures
- Loch NessScottish lake, alleged monster
mermaids · krakens · leviathan · Moby Dick · Jonah · superstitions · rituals · traditions
tall tales
Fantastical exaggerated stories
- whoppersOutlandish untruths
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
hyperbole · fabrication · stretching the truth · bragging · boasting · puffery · yarns · bluster · swagger · showboating
anecdotes
Brief amusing accounts
- yarnsThreads or tall tales
- talesSpoken or written narratives
- narrativesAccounts of events
raconteur · banter · recounting · regaling · reminiscing · one-upmanship · camaraderie · bonding · oral tradition · humor
angler
One who casts lines
- catchSeize or snag
- record-breakerOne setting new highs
- bassDeep pitch or fish
trout · marlin · weigh-in · measuring · tackle · lure · bait · rod · reel · charter
legends
Traditional stories or icons
- mythsTraditional untrue narratives
- loreTraditional knowledge transmitted orally
- sea monstersMythical ocean creatures
Loch Ness · mermaids · krakens · leviathan · Moby Dick · Jonah · superstitions · rituals · traditions · local legends
- fish stories
- fishing loretall tale, tall tales, the one that got away, whopper, exaggeration
- talestale, tall tales, short story, yarns, folk tale
- jokesjokes, joke, puns, one-liners, pun
- Sunday schoolSunday school teachers, memory verses, lesson plans, Bible verse, Sunday school curriculum
- tall talesPaul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett
fish storiesgospel truth
Claim beyond all question
unvarnished truth · plain truth · understatements · eyewitness testimony · documentary evidence
fish, fishing, stories, fisherman, fishes, fished, fishermen, fishery, fisher