Meaning of FAR-FETCHED and TALL TALE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So do you know someone who whenever they tell you things you think it sounds a little bit
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far-fetched?
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In English when we say something is far-fetched it means that the details of the story are
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a little bit hard to believe.
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We often, in English, we'll say this about people who go fishing and they'll come back
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and they'll say, you know, they caught a fish that was this big and they'll hold up their
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hands and it'll sound a little bit far-fetched.
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It sounds a little bit untrue.
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I mean, you believe that they caught a fish and you believe that it was a big fish but
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the story sounds a little bit far-fetched when they say it was as big as they say it
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was.
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Some people whenever they tell a story it sounds far-fetched.
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I actually have an uncle and whenever he tells stories there's little parts that seem untrue.
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It seems far-fetched.
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We have another phrase in English when someone tells a story that's hard to believe and that's
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"a tall tale".
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So if someone, again we'll use the fishing example, if someone tells you a story about
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going fishing and they, you know they caught a fish this big but they tell everyone they
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caught a gigantic fish, you could say that they're telling a tall tale.
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So in some ways it is lying to tell a tall tale, but usually when people tell stories
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they exaggerate a little bit and we would call that a tall tale.
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