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cock-and-bull story

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cock-and-bull story
a hard-to-believe, made-up story; a story that is a lie. Don't give me that cock-and-bull story. I asked for an explanation, and all I got was your ridiculous cock-and-bull story!
See also: story
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Humorous half-columns in the local papers, written in the customary silly way by unlicked cub reporters just out of grammar school, tickled the fancy of San Francisco for a fleeting moment in that the steamship Mariposa had rescued some sea-waifs possessed of a cock-and-bull story that not even the reporters believed.
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"You're a past mistress of the cock-and-bull story," said Philip.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Challenger was the man who came with some cock-and-bull story from South America.
The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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