English Explanatory Dictionary

very like a whale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Highly improbable; not to be believed.

Word forms

very like a whale

Etymology

From an exchange between Hamlet and Polonius (discussing the shape of a cloud) in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

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