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.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Guinevere	GWIN-ə-vir (English)	Arthurian Romance
Sung-Hoon	sung-hoon	Korean
Serge	SERZH	French
Verona	-	Various
Martim	-	Portuguese
Phyllis	FIL-is (English)	Greek Mythology, English, German