Meaning: Older family members share tales from their past experiences.
Choice of Words: Grandparents, tell, stories, old are the key words that give the main idea of the sentence.
Alternative Expressions
Grandparents share tales from the past.
Meaning: This means that grandparents tell stories about things that happened when they were young or even before they were born, stories about their own lives or the lives of their ancestors.
Choice of Words:Grandparents are the parents of your parents, usually older people with lots of experience and knowledge. Share means to give something to someone, or to let someone have something. Tales are made-up events or stories that can be true or not, and past means something that happened in the time before now. When you put them together, "Grandparents share tales from the past" means that older people tell stories that happened long ago.
Old folks spin yarns from days gone by.
Meaning: This is a more colorful way to say that grandparents tell stories about the past, stories that may be true or not, and that have been passed down through generations.
Choice of Words:Old folks is another way to say grandparents or older people. Spin means to tell a story or tale, and yarns are stories that are often long and made-up. Days gone by means a long time ago, in the past. When you put them together, "Old folks spin yarns from days gone by" means that older people tell stories about things that happened long ago.