Whopper

Definition

whopper /'wɒpǝ(r)/ n ( infml ) ၁။ အႀကီးစားႀကီး။ The fisherman had caught a whopper. ၂။ မုသားႀကီး။ If she said that, she was telling a real whopper.

Examples

1. ‘Apparently believing this was a real whopper of an idea
2. he wrote 10 meandering sequences and strung them together into a film.’
3. ‘He is sent with a companion
4. his best friend and the publications photographer
5. to bring back a whopper of a story.’
6. ‘Mr. Greenspan's whopper must be followed by a whopper of a slump.’
7. ‘The biggest pike caught during the winter leagues was a whopper of twenty-five pounds
8. caught on a deadbait on March 2.’
9. ‘The two-disc set is a whopper.’
10. ‘It was too easy
11. even for Julia who
12. fearing she wouldn't get a bite
13. found herself ankle-deep in whoppers.’
14. ‘Historians disagree whether Washington told whoppers or whether he just spread propaganda among British spies and soldiers to help win the American Revolution.’
15. ‘Research revealed that untruths range from little white lies to huge whoppers aimed purely at personal gain.’
16. ‘However
17. the oversized softie has a weakness for sob stories and the lumber lout feeds him a whopper.’
18. ‘And his lies
19. even his biggest whoppers
20. seem most sincerely to be believed by him - I have no doubt that he thinks he served in the National Guard
21. for example.’
22. ‘Even Teb will stop arguing with me long enough to admit that I can tell a whopper to beat all whoppers.’
23. ‘As both posts and the ‘mainstream media’ story are full of whoppers (and I don't mean they went to Burger King…) I just had to toss in my two cents.’
24. ‘Indeed
25. some of them were whoppers like claiming areas had been clear-felled when they hadn't and putting misleading captions on photographs.’
26. ‘Four years ago
27. I started the Lie Emporium
28. a website dedicated to lies
29. whoppers
30. porkies
31. politicians and just plain old cheap gags.’
32. ‘To put it another way
33. we may need to tell one another and ourselves major whoppers
34. and not just little white lies
35. to replenish our interest in life.’
36. ‘A section of the website ironically labeled ‘Fact vs. Fiction’ contains this whopper.’