stretch the truth (?.)

• aggrandize
• amplify
• ballyhoo
• be untruthful
• build up
• burlesque
• caricature
• carry too far
• deceive
• draw the longbow
• equivocate
• exaggerate
• falsify
• fib
• go to extremes
• hyperbolize
• lay it on
• lie
• lie flatly
• magnify
• make much of
• mislead
• overcharge
• overdo
• overdraw
• overestimate
• overpraise
• overreach
• overreact
• oversell
• overspeak
• overstate
• overstress
• pile it on
• prevaricate
• puff
• speak falsely
• story
• stretch
• talk big
• talk in superlatives
• tell a lie
• tout
• travesty