One Idiom One Day: Tall story
You cannot believe everything he says since most of them are just tall stories.
a story that cannot be believed easily; something that is made up to be out of the plausibility range.
The origination comes from boastfulness which was meant to either deceive or just amuse people. The name was coined in the 19th century in England, where the stories were also called Munchausens, after Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Münchhausen. He might sound fictional, but was in fact a real person, albeit a purveyor of extravagantly untruthful stories about himself. In the United States, tall stories were the tales that were told and retold around the campfire. They usually involve mythical characters who accomplishes some superhuman task; for example Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack who could fall a tree with a single swing of his axe.
E.g., That is such a tall story because it has been passed down in generations and every one added something of their own to it. Now, when one hears it, it sounds legendary.
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