Definition

1. Verb phrase:
   • To fabricate a story, to make up a story: The act of inventing or concocting a false or fictional narrative, often with the intent to deceive, slander, or entertain.

Usage Examples

• Verb phrase:
  • Đừng có nặn chuyện! (Don't make up stories!)
  • Nó chỉ đang nặn chuyện để được chú ý thôi. (He/She is just fabricating a story to get attention.)
  • Cô ấy bịa đặt, nặn chuyện để hại tôi. (She lied and made up stories to harm me.)

Advanced Usage

• "nặn ra chuyện": A variant emphasizing the act of "squeezing out" or inventing a story from nothing.
  • Anh ta có tài nặn ra chuyện cười rất hay. (He has a talent for making up very funny jokes/stories.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bịa chuyện (verb phrase): To fabricate a story. A very close synonym.
  • Tao biết mày đang bịa chuyện. (I know you are making up a story.)
• Thêu dệt (verb): To embellish, to fabricate (a story). Often implies adding elaborate, false details.
  • Câu chuyện đó đã bị thêu dệt quá nhiều. (That story has been embellished/fabricated too much.)

Synonyms

• Invent a story: To create a story from imagination.
• Fabricate a tale: To construct a false narrative.
• Concoct a story: To invent or devise a story, often a false one.

Related Idioms

• "Nặn óc suy nghĩ": To rack one's brains (to think hard). This uses "nặn" (to squeeze) metaphorically but is not about fabricating stories.
  • Tôi đang nặn óc để tìm giải pháp. (I am racking my brains to find a solution.)

1. Make up a story
   • Nặn chuyện để vu cáo người
     To make up a story and slander someone