cock-and-bull story

A wildly exaggerated or falsified story or explanation. When I questioned Wendy about her recent tardiness, she gave me some cock-and-bull story about how her train took the wrong track and she had to hitchhike to work from the station across town.

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!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Milka (2)	-	Biblical
Colton	['kəultən]
Lilli	LI-lee (German), LEEL-lee (Finnish)	German, Finnish
Delayahu	-	Biblical Hebrew
Karpos	-	Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Kazuki	kah-zoo-kee	Japanese