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yarn-spinning

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Adj.1.yarn-spinning - inclined to tell long and involved stories (often of incredible happenings)
communicatory, communicative - able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray


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Oxfam gave women cash grants to remobilise them, replaced coir yarn-spinning machines and gave them new tools to do the same jobs faster.
Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney star in a fantastical drama about an exasperated son who demands the truth about his yarn-spinning father's tall tales.
Taking on a genre that's becoming frayed at the edges, Stephenson marshals his considerable intellect, dark wit, sheer inventiveness, and yarn-spinning pizzazz to create a novel that leaves the competition in a snowdrift and makes the whole subject somehow seem new.
 
 
 
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