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
Yaroslava	yah-rah-SLAH-vah (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Medieval Slavic
Dong-Geun	dong-guwn	Korean
Miruna	-	Romanian
Doreen	DAWR-een	English
Vladilen	-	Russian
Sibylla	zi-BUY-lah (German)	Greek, German, Swedish, Late Roman, Late Greek