draw the long bow

1 说大话

rodomontade speak big mouthy vaporing buck gas pitch bounce bull blah rant gasconade squib draw the longbow shout the odds full of bull shoot the breeze shoot the bull shoot a line

2 夸张

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3 吹牛

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