To “tell a yarn” means to tell a story, especially a long and tall one, one that is exaggerated, one that is imagined or at any rate one that is not entirely true. That’s the idea being conveyed in ...

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再看这一句：It's a telling story. 有人根据tell ...

Please explain “keep on top of his finances” in this sentence: He said he was going through a hard time having split up from his girlfriend, started taking drugs and had “failed to keep on top of his ...