Is this a euphemism for something else?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted he lied to first lady Melania Trump at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, last year—about the size of his catch on fishing trips. Putin was seated with Trump and Emanuela Mauro, the wife of Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, at a dinner during the summit. In an interview for upcoming Russian documentary World Order 2018, the president said he told a white lie boasting about his fishing expeditions.
"I told them about Russia. About Siberia. About fishing. But, of course, as you do on such occasions, I fibbed a little. When you are talking about fishing, how do you not embellish?” Putin told Vladimir Solovyov. “I told them about Kamchatka. About the fauna. About the tigers.”
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