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
Vanessa	və-NES-ə (English)	English, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch
Verginius	-	Ancient Roman
Baltasar (1)	bahl-tah-SAHR	Spanish
Zvonimira	-	Croatian
TomaŽ	-	Slovene
Sweeney	-	Irish, Scottish