LONG BOW

Traducere în limba română

long bow substantiv

(ist.) arc mare;

(fam.) to draw / to pull the long bow a povesti verzi şi uscate, a face din ţânţar armăsar, a exagera.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The vanguard halted a long bow shot from the hill, and with waving spears and vaunting shouts challenged their enemies to come forth, while two cavaliers, pricking forward from the glittering ranks, walked their horses slowly between the two arrays with targets braced and lances in rest like the challengers in a tourney.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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