"draw the long bow" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "draws the long bow",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawing the long bow",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drew the long bow",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawn the long bow",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "draw<,,drew,drawn> the long bow"
      },
      "expansion": "draw the long bow (third-person singular simple present draws the long bow, present participle drawing the long bow, simple past drew the long bow, past participle drawn the long bow)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "source": "w"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 16:",
          "text": "[…] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exaggerate; to tell tall tales."
      ],
      "id": "en-draw_the_long_bow-en-verb-TnKsg-XJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "exaggerate",
          "exaggerate"
        ],
        [
          "tall tale",
          "tall tale"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To exaggerate; to tell tall tales."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "draw a long bow"
        },
        {
          "word": "pull the long bow"
        },
        {
          "word": "throw the hatchet"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "draw the long bow"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "draws the long bow",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawing the long bow",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drew the long bow",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drawn the long bow",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "draw<,,drew,drawn> the long bow"
      },
      "expansion": "draw the long bow (third-person singular simple present draws the long bow, present participle drawing the long bow, simple past drew the long bow, past participle drawn the long bow)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 16:",
          "text": "[…] Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exaggerate; to tell tall tales."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exaggerate",
          "exaggerate"
        ],
        [
          "tall tale",
          "tall tale"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To exaggerate; to tell tall tales."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "draw a long bow"
        },
        {
          "word": "pull the long bow"
        },
        {
          "word": "throw the hatchet"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "draw the long bow"
}