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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Draw the Long Bow (To). To exaggerate. Some wonderful tales are told of Robin Hood and other foresters practised in the long bow. (See BOW.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DRAW THE LONG BOW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | syöttää pajunköyttä (kid, pull nose). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | aufschneiden (boast, brag, carve, carve up, cut open, fib, lance, slice, slice up, to draw the long bow). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | túloz (exaggerate, magnify, overact, overdo, overdraw, overshoot, to aggravate, to camp it up, to cut it fat, to draw the long bow, to exaggerate, to overstate, to pile it on, to put the pot on, to romance, to stretch), túllő a célon (to draw the long bow, to overshoot the mark, to overstep the mark, to throw out the baby with the bath water), nagyokat hazudik (to draw the long bow, to take in), nagyokat füllent (to draw the long bow), nagyít (aggrandize, augment, blow up, enlarge, exaggerate, increase, to cut it fat, to draw the long bow, to enlarge, to exaggerate), hárijánoskodik (to draw the long bow, to shoot a line), elveti a sulykot (to draw the long bow). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | awdray ethay onglay owbay spune braşoave. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-h-l-n-o-o-r-t-w-w" | |
-5 letters: deathblow, halogeton, handwrote, heartwood, honorable. | |
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