fairy tale

Speech parts

1. fairy tale - Noun

2. fairy tale - Adjective

Meaning

an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

a story about fairies; told to amuse children

Alternative names

fairy-tale

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Examples

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Andersen

...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Ralph Ellison

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. Paulo Coelho

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. Marc Bloch

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. Azar Nafisi

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