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
Filippa	fee-LIP-pah (Swedish)	Russian, Greek, Swedish, Italian
Berit	BE-rit (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Frederick	['fredrik]
Radhika	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil
Gage	[geidʒ]
Enya	EN-ya	Irish