Idiom
tell its own tale
Meaning
To speak for itself; to require no explanation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The messy room tells its own tale.”
“When we saw the broken window and the open safe, the scene told its own tale.”
“The faded photographs and dusty furniture in the abandoned house told their own tale of a family that had long since moved on.”
Examples
simple
“The messy room tells its own tale.”
contextual
“When we saw the broken window and the open safe, the scene told its own tale.”
complex
“The faded photographs and dusty furniture in the abandoned house told their own tale of a family that had long since moved on.”
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