shoot a line

1 He boasted that he could eat a horse.

他吹牛说他可以吃下一头牛。

2 A boaster and a liar are cousins-germen.

吹牛与说谎本是同宗。

3 She said she was an expert skier,but I think she was just shooting a line.

她说自己是滑雪行家，但我认为她说大话。

1 口若悬河

well-hung

2 说大话

mouthy vaporing rodomontade buck gas pitch bounce bull blah rant gasconade squib draw the longbow draw the long bow shout the odds full of bull shoot the breeze shoot the bull fanfaronade talk big

3 吹嘘

side puffery skite brag vaunt prate

4 吹牛

windy bouncing quack Gascon vaporing charlatanic line-shoot gum-beating flamdoodle gas blow crack bull crap cracker eyewash braggadocio Munchausen blague charlatanism gasconade magniloquence cockalorum braggartism skite charlatanry fanfaronade jactation buck four-flush stretch pitch bounce brave romance vaporise rodomontade squib bulldog vaporize talk horse shoot off mouth shit for the birds tootle own kazoo draw the longbow draw the long bow crack jaw full of bull sling it shoot the breeze shoot the bull throw the hatchet talk through hat talk swank brag vapour hot air talk big braggart shenanigan taradiddle put it on tall tale toot horn big words blow own horn talk tall fish story blowhard magniloquent vaunt exaggerate

5 口 夸张

pile it on

6 说谎

lie