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cock-and-bull story |
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a cock-and-bull story (informal) a story or explanation which is obviously not true. She told me some cock-and-bull story about her car breaking down. 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. "You're a past mistress of the cock-and-bull story," said Philip. Challenger was the man who came with some cock-and-bull story from South America. |
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cock-and-bull story
