fairy tale

[fairy tale] or [story] {n.}

An inaccurate, even false account of something; a result of wishful thinking.

* /Jeff said he was going to be promoted soon, but we all suspect that it is only one of his customary fairy tales./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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