"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tale sustantivo

sustantivo + tale

Kolokacji: 56

fairy tale • folk tale • Canterbury Tale • morality tale • Tale of several Cities • tale of several seamen • horror tale • tale of adventure • ...

tale + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 4

Tales series • tale spinner • tale sign • tale teller

tale + verbo

Kolokacji: 54

tale tells • tale begins • tale comes • tale goes • tale says • ...

verbo + tale

Kolokacji: 49

hear tales • write tales • listen to one's tale • spin tales • include tales • believe one's tale • tale set • tell the tale • recount the tale • ...

adjetivo + tale

Kolokacji: 262

cautionary tale • tall tale • classic tale • old tale • Weird Tale • strange tale • sad tale • true tale • ancient tale • dark tale • ...

Kolokacji: 24

1. cautionary tale = opowieść ku przestrodze cautionary tale

2. tall tale = niewiarygodna historia, nieprawdopodobna historia tall tale

It could be that he was being told a tall tale.
Tall tales are often told so as to make the narrator seem to have been a part of the story.
"As of the 1930's, this was a very popular place for American tall tales."
He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales.
His childhood friend later said that he told tall tales about himself even in school.
She shook her head as if at a small child telling tall tales.
Also still drifting in deep space is every tall tale ever told.
But who knows what other celebrities think of the tall tales told about them?
And then he led his band in a version like a tall tale.
However, she makes up tall tales to try to blend in to the group.