to tell a tale
to tell a long & fanciful story
to tell an unbelievable lengthy story
Kids like to have their grandparents spin a yarn for them.
His sister always spins a yarn about her childhood.
Her father has to spin a yarn each night to make his daughter sleep else she would start crying
There are stories about courage of many warriors. Who knows if they are just spinning yarns.
Don’t you think most of the saints spin a yarn when narrating the mystic stories? They probably do it to deliver that one message of truth.
I do not believe him. He has old habit of spinning yarns about his school days.
He gets happy on being insisted about his spinning yarns. He doesn’t know that everyone is making a fool of him while doing so.
There is no origin for this idiom
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definition
Common phrase that has a specific meaning.