💡 Tip: [to exaggerate or inflate a figure] [dead man's lantern → report a bigger sum] to exaggerate or inflate a figure, to report a higher figure than is justified by the facts (since three years were often added to the age of an adult who had died when written on the lantern hung outside the house).
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1[to exaggerate or inflate a figure] [dead man's lantern → report a bigger sum] to exaggerate or inflate a figure, to report a higher figure than is justified by the facts (since three years were often added to the age of an adult who had died when written on the lantern hung outside the house).