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stretch a/the point
idiom
to make a claim that is not completely true, or to do something that goes further than what is considered to be reasonable: 言过其实;超越限度，破例，通融
They claim to be the biggest company in the world, which is stretching a point.他们宣称是世界上最大的公司，这有点儿言过其实。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Exaggerating & playing down
bloviate
blow something out of proportionidiom
cartoonish
cartoonishly
catastrophize
fulsome
go overboardidiom
inflated
make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
make little of somethingidiom
make much of somethingidiom
make something of something/someone
meal
mildly
minimization
OTT
protest too muchidiom
romanticize
underplay
underrate
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