What is the meaning of TELLING. Phrases containing TELLING
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something suspected though not yet apparent (“there’s wigs in that story that you are tellingâ€)
Telling someone they are full of nonsense
Honest; on the square: telling the truth
Bar (pub). I'm off to the Jack. See also 'Alone' and Bar (pub). Could be very confusing if you're going alone - "I'm off to the jack jack". Or, if you were telling your brother Jack, "I'm off to the jack jack, Jack"
Telling a tall tale.
Sheer terror could be instilled to anyone in the contributors school, By one simple shout-aloud sentence: Ah'mer! I'm telling off you! Whence the girl who's pencil sharpener you'd just borrowed but because it was made in Taiwan, broke in contact with with the merest pressure of hand, so young girl would wander off to teacher after saying that immortal line. This was mid-80's, the arse end of the capital punishment era, which meant your bot was slapped and you were made to stand with your back to the class until dinner, which in this case was a very long time! The case in hand happened early that morning. and the word and that humiliation can still be felt 17 years later!
Dead. I'm telling you, mate. He's brown bread
Telling sea stories. Referring to lamps slung from the deckhead which swing while at sea. The theory is that the more the lamp swings, the more the storyteller is exaggerating.
(like) prep., similar to, approximately.  “We lived like kings.â€Â Also used as a marker, space-maker in sentences - the way um and ah are used, as well as the Spanish “digo.â€Â “I’m like telling my mom that like I have to go the mall and like she’s like tweakin’â€Â [Etym., in this usage, first used by jazz musicians in 30’s and 40’s, beatniks in the 50’s, youth in 60’s to now; also prominent in “valley talk.â€]
 (Blab) Begging by telling hardluck stories.
Fibs (lies). He's been telling scotts again. Scott Gibbs is a rugby star
Telling a tall tale.
Lies. Blimey - he gets two pigs (beers) in him and he starts telling porkies.
Square Honest; : telling the truth
Consists of alerting the authorities (grownups) to some crime committed by a fellow child. Most common phrase: "I'm telling!" (often said in a really whiney way with the first syllable draw out).
Admiral Conan Antonio Motti once referred to Darth Vader using this term in reference to his Force abilities, telling him not to try to frighten him and the others on the Death Star with his "sorcerer's ways."
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Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.
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Telling tales; babbling.
n.
The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy.
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The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Tell
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One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
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The art of telling fortunes with cards.
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Telling tales officiously.
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One who deals in news; one who is active in hearing and telling news.
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The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
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One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
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Truth-telling; truthful; veracious.
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The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.
v. t.
To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning.
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The art telling fortunes by inspection of the features.
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The act or practice of telling stories.
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Fortune telling by physiognomy.
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Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.
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A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.
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Being accustomed to tell stories.
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