you've got too much on your hands
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! A yarn was a story, typically a colorful one. The image is of the cowboy spinning his tale like you spin yarn.
Nothing. You may mean "spin a yarn," which means to tell a tale or story.
Yarn is made of strands of wool twisted together - or spun, as they call it. That's all it means.However, to spin a yarn means to tell a story.
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Another word for spin is turn or rotate.
"Spin too much straw" is not a widely recognized phrase, but it can be interpreted as an expression related to overthinking or overcomplicating a simple situation. It suggests that someone is taking a basic idea or concept and unnecessarily complicating it, akin to the process of trying to create something valuable from something worthless. The phrase may also evoke the idea of deceit or trying to fabricate something from nothing, similar to the tale of Rumpelstiltskin.
This is a reference to the fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin" by the Brothers Grimm. In the story, a miller's daughter promises her firstborn child to a magical creature who helps her spin straw into gold.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! A yarn was a story, typically a colorful one. The image is of the cowboy spinning his tale like you spin yarn.
Nothing. Perhaps you mean "spin a YARN," which means to tell a story.
it means how fast the earth spins once and how much it takes to spin around the sun
Nothing. You may mean "spin a yarn," which means to tell a tale or story.
spin is a code name on elite beat agents!
a spinner or spin some one who loses the plot
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astronomy
Short phrases are not copyrightable. There does not appear to be a registered trademark on the phrase.
"Straw into Gold" is a story from the Brothers Grimm in which a young girl named Rumpelstiltskin helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold in exchange for her firstborn child. Through a series of challenges, the girl outwits Rumpelstiltskin and ultimately keeps her child while learning a valuable lesson about the consequences of making promises without thinking them through.