cock-and-bull story
Example Sentences
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Though some writers and critics were unimpressed — John Dos Passos described it as “a cock-and-bull story about a whole lot of tourists getting drunk” — most found the novel stylistically invigorating and sociologically profound.
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2016
Even so, if my husband came to me with this confession, I’d probably be suspicious it was something of a cock-and-bull story and that he was withholding the most interesting details.
From Slate • May 23, 2013
For so long, any notion that England would have openers who consistently scored ODI hundreds would have been dismissed as a cock-and-bull story.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2012
While the whole "cock-and-bull story" had a ring of the past in it, Oppenheimer's association with the Red-tainted Chevalier did not.
From Time Magazine Archive
“How he could have fallen for this cock-and-bull story is beyond my comprehension except that he may have wanted to.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
