Synonyms for fairy tale
fai·ry tale

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1. fairytale, fairy tale, fairy storynoun

   a story about fairies; told to amuse children

   Synonyms:
   fairy story, song and dance, fairytale, cock-and-bull story

2. fairytale, fairy tale, fairy story, cock-and-bull story, song and dancenoun

   an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

   Synonyms:
   fairy story, song and dance, fairytale, cock-and-bull story

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1. fairy tale

   Read the full text of the Fairy Tale poem by Boris Pasternak on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Chris McKenna:

   I think Americans would love to have a royal family, they're all about celebrity -- the Kennedys and Camelot, the fairy tale. But it doesn't always play out like that, does it? There's deaths, divorces, scandal. I'd say it was more like 'The Game of Thrones.'.

2. Dejan Stojanovic:

   The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.

3. Erik Pevernagie:

   Perhaps life is an art, an enchantment, a fairy tale, an adventurous story trimmed with alluring episodes, an act with players who seem to be what they are actually not. We cannot, however, expect people to accept the make belief which some actors try to fool into believing. ( " He did not know that she knew " )

4. Tamrat Giorgis:

   The world out there wanted to believe the fairy tale. They became obsessed with their own narrative, but that doesn't chime with what is happening on the ground. It is much more complex and scary.

5. Marie Curie:

   I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.