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stretch a/the point idiom to make a claim that is not completely true, or to do something that goes further than what is considered to be reasonable: 言过其实;超越限度,破例,通融 They claim to be the biggest company in the world, which is stretching a point.他们宣称是世界上最大的公司,这有点儿言过其实。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization OTT protest too muchidiom romanticize underplay underrate
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