美談

びだん【美談】

moving story ［episode］

〖C〗人を感動させる話

the hero of the moving story 美談の主.

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びだん【美談】

a praiseworthy [fine, laudable, commendable] anecdote [episode]; an instance of a good deed done.

●親孝行の美談 an admirable story of filial piety.

●それを美談に仕立て上げる make much more of it than there was; turn it into a grand story.

●この話は今もなお美談として伝えられている. The story is still told with undiminished admiration.

・その美談はどうも眉唾(_まゆつば)ものだ. It appears that the story is pure myth.