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cock-and-bull stories
n. (cock-and-bull story English)
Usage examples of "cock-and-bull stories".
He started off by telling cock-and-bull stories, but then it got worse -- much worse.
Neither did he have to involve himself in local feuds, prejudices and cock-and-bull stories that wouldn't even make good background for a novel because they were so common.
He was used to hearing cock-and-bull stories but this parrot-and-bastard one didn't even get off the slippery starting-blocks of meretriciousness.
For our ancestors, dreams, hallucinations, revelations, and cock-and-bull stories were inextricably mixed with facts.
He was used to hearing cock-and-bull stories but this parrot-and-bastard one didn’.