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1) General subject: adorn, aggrandize, broider, embellish (выдумкой рассказ и т. п.), embroider (рассказ), farce (пикантными подробностями), flatter, glamorise, glamorize, glamourize, gloss, paint in bright colours, prettify, saccharinize, smarten, sugar, sugar coat, sugar cover, to broider (on, one's) stories, varnish, paint in bright colors, stick it on, whitewash, gloss over, give positive coloring, dress-up, exaggerate2) Colloquial: paint, (часто smarten up) smarten, airbrush3) American: slick4) Diplomatic term: cosmetisize5) Jargon: put balls on ( something), sugar-coat sugarcoat6) Makarov: sugar-coat, do grace to, embroider on stories, embroider stories7) Idiomatic expression: turn geese into swans -
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1) General subject: adorn, embellish, fib, pitch a tale to pitch a fork, pitch a yarn, pitch the fork, pull the long bow, romanticize, tell fibs, to broider (on, one's) stories, (быть склонным) draw on imagination, draw the long bow2) Jargon: fudge3) Makarov: draw on imagination, embroider on stories, embroider stories
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