stretch a/the point
to make a claim that is not completely true, or to do something that goes further than what is considered to be reasonable:
They claim to be the biggest company in the world, which is stretching a point.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Exaggerating & playing down
- alarmist
- blow sth out of proportion idiom
- drama queen
- dramatize
- exaggeration
- lard
- lay
- make a meal (out) of sth idiom
- make much of sth idiom
- make sth of sth
- meal
- over-egg the pudding idiom
- overboard
- overplay
- overstatement
- pad
- pudding
- stretch
- stretch the truth idiom
- understatement
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