He told a ridiculous fish story about a swarm of giant mosquitoes.
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Bring vise, tools and materials and/or fish stories.—Staff Report, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2026 But that fish story wasn’t done.—Jon Chapman, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025 Travis Hunter tales in Boulder will be told like fish stories for decades.—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Aug. 2025 Very Jaws, or perhaps Jaws 3, but there will be no awards for this fish story.—Chris Pepin-Neff, Scientific American, 26 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for fish story
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Etymology
from the traditional exaggeration by fishermen of the size of fish almost caught