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Юрий Слободенюк
I don't believe I would stretch the truth if I call Procrustes a very nice guy ... "
Donald Trump



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stretch the truth
 
to say something that is not completely honest in order to make someone or something seem better than it really is:

He was accused of stretching the truth about how much he had helped in the project.


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In the Greek myth, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon with a stronghold on Mount Korydallos at Erineus, on the sacred way between Athens and Eleusis. There he had a bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit. In later tellings, if the guest proved too tall, Procrustes would amputate the excess length; nobody ever fit the bed exactly. Procrustes continued his reign of terror until he was captured by Theseus, travelling to Athens along the sacred way, who "fitted" Procrustes to his own bed:
He killed Damastes, surnamed Procrustes, by compelling him to make his own body fit his bed, as he had been wont to do with those of strangers. And he did this in imitation of Heracles. For that hero punished those who offered him violence in the manner in which they had plotted to serve him.
Killing Procrustes was Theseus's last adventure on his journey from Troezen to Athens