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tell tales out of school
Idiom(s): tell tales out of schoolTheme: GOSSIP
to tell secrets or spread rumors.
• I wish that John would keep quiet. He's telling tales out of school again.
• If you tell tales out of school a lot, people won't know when to believe you.
tell its own tale
Idiom(s): tell its own story AND tell its own taleTheme: REVELATION
[for the state of something] to indicate clearly what has happened.
• The upturned boat told its own tale. The fisherman had drowned.
• The girl's tear-stained face told its own story.
Dead men tell no tales
A dead person cannot cause difficulties by revealing something that it would be preferable to conceal.Old wive's tale
A proverb or piece of advice that is commonly accepted as truth and is handed down the generations, but is normally false.Tale of the tape
This idiom is used when comparing things, especially in sports; it comes from boxing where the fighters would be measured with a tape measure before a fight.fairy tale|fairy|fairy story|story|tale
n. An inaccurate, even false account of something; a result of wishful thinking. Jeff said he was going to be promoted soon, but we all suspect that it is only one of his customary fairy tales.talent scout|scout|talent
n. phr. A person employed by a large organization to seek out promising and gifted individuals. Gordon has been working as a talent scout for a television program.Compare: HEAD HUNTING2.
talent show|show|talent
n. An entertainment in which new entertainers try to win a prize. Mary won the talent show by her dancing. The people liked Bill's singing in the talent show.tall story|story|tale|tall|tall tale
n. phr. See: FISH STORY.tell tales out of school|out of school|school|tale
v. phr. To tell something that is secret; tell others something that is not meant to be known. Don't tell Jane anything. She is always telling tales out of school.Compare: LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG, SPILL THE BEANS.
tale
talesee old wives' tale; tall tale; tell tales; thereby hangs a tale.
tell tales
tell talesDivulge secrets, as in Don't trust him; he's apt to tell tales. This expression was first recorded about 1350. A variant, tell tales out of school, first recorded in 1530, presumably alluded to schoolchildren gossiping but was soon broadened to revealing secret or private information. Both may be obsolescent.
thereby hangs a tale
thereby hangs a taleThat detail or incident reminds one of another story, as in So he went without supper, but thereby hangs a tale. This expression, embodying the pun on tail and tale, was used by Shakespeare in at least four of his plays and presumably was well known before that. [1500s]
old wives' tale
A now-debunked adventure or abstraction that was already believed, generally superstitiously. How can you accept in that old wives' tale? Oh, that's aloof an old wives' tale! A burst mirror does not agreement seven years' bad luck.Learn more: old, taleold wives' tale
Fig. a allegory or superstition. You absolutely don't accept that actuality about craving a algid do you? It's aloof an old wives' tale.Learn more: old, taleold wives' tale
A superstition, as in Toads account warts? That's an old wives' tale. This announcement was already accepted in age-old Greece, and a adaptation in English was recorded in 1387. Despite invoking biased stereotypes of women and old people, it survives. Learn more: old, talean old wives' tale
COMMON An old wives' tale is a acceptance that a lot of bodies accept that is based on acceptable ideas, generally ones which accept been accepted to be incorrect. My mother acclimated to acquaint me to augment a algid and abjure a fever. Is it aloof an old wives' tale? It's not aloof an old wives' tale, you know, that abounding moons and carelessness go together.Learn more: old, talean old wives' tale
a broadly captivated acceptable acceptance that is now anticipation to be estimated or incorrect. The byword (and its beforehand alternative old wives' fable ) is recorded from the aboriginal 16th century, with the ancient archetype actuality from Tyndale's adaptation of the Bible.Learn more: old, talean old ˈwives’ tale
(disapproving) an old abstraction or acceptance that has accepted not to be scientific: When you’re assured a baby, bodies acquaint you all sorts of old wives’ tales. ♢ The acceptance that composition charcoal your bark is aloof an old wives’ tale.Learn more: old, taleold wives' tale
A awesome story. This appellation absolutely dates aback to Plato, who again the byword in a cardinal of writings and was so cited by Erasmus. In English a adaptation of it appeared in John Trevisa’s adaptation of Polycronicon, “And useth telynges as olde wifes dooth” (1387), and again began to be acclimated frequently from the sixteenth aeon on. “These are trifles and bald old wives’ tales” wrote Christopher Marlowe in Doctor Faustus (ca. 1589). Arnold Bennett acclimated it as the appellation of a atypical (1908), and this sex-and age-biased cliché persists to the present day.Learn more: old, tale
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