tell a story

Alternative names

tell-a-story

Synonyms

allegorize mythicize

Antonyms

masque whiting haw palm domino parasol
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Examples

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. Karen Blixen

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel. Peter Carey

What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Steven Spielberg

I try to tell a story musically in a song. Barry White

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one. Margaret Atwood

Words in the phrase

tell a story

Close letter words and terms

tell a fib tell a lot tell a secret tell a white lie tell about tell against