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单词 schoolboy tale
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schoolboy tale
schoolboy tale n. (a) a tale or account told by a schoolboy, esp. one that makes wildly exaggerated claims purported to be true; (b) a story that appeals to or concerns a schoolboy or schoolboys.
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1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 523. ¶2 A parcel of School-Boy Tales.
1828 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 1 227 Dr. Burrows has had the story second-hand, and we would..remind him..of the schoolboy tale of the gentleman who vomited three black crows.
1893 Newberry House Mag. Dec. 742 We never do like the schoolboy tales written by ladies, because they are not like the schools or the schoolboys we have known.
1914 Ohio Educ. Monthly Oct. 582 Much gossip flew from farm to farm..But schoolboy tales could do more harm When people seldom met.
2002 Independent (Nexis) 22 Feb. 1 It was a schoolboy tale of derring-do.
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