Definitions
Etymologies
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Examples
“And don't give me that cock-and-bull story about having fallen in love with Miss Danford, Freddie," he said.”
“How he'd react to that discovery in light of the cock-and-bull story I'd spun to him and Admiral Garvie in the Holy Loch I couldn't even begin to guess.”
“He had always laughed at what he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon himself.”
“Next day their comrades waur fed a cock-and-bull story like the ane ye got, laddie, aboot special assignments in the ootlands, and syne, they’re scattered far and wide on errands which hae no purpose save to scatter them.”
“Her very blood tingled when she thought of the success of some of them, – how Hensel and Grettel had heated an oven red-hot, and persuaded the old witch to get into it by some cock-and-bull story of what she would find there; and how, the minute she got in, they shut up the oven door, and burnt her all up!”
“Next day their comrades waur fed a cock-and-bull story like the ane ye got, laddie, aboot special assignments in the ootlands, and syne, they're scattered far and wide on errands which hae no purpose save to scatter them.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cock-and-bull story’.
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Wirds of a Feather
Phrases and figures of speech in which birds are featured. Or feathers. Or such like.
a little bird tol..., to have an albatr..., birds of a feathe..., in the catbird seat, cold turkey, to cook one's goose, don't count your ..., to have one's duc..., to eat crow, a feather in one'..., for the birds, flip the bird and 122 more...
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Animalia Wordia
Words or short phrases with animal names in them. Since I already have a dedicated list for 'monkey' words I shall leave them out of this one for the moment.
paper tiger, pigeon-hearted, lion-hearted, sacred cow, chicken heart, fraidy cat, scaredy-cat, snake oil, can of worms, snake pit, rat's nest, stool pigeon and 114 more...
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Words that I found in old books and ...
blundderbuss, eft, bradawl, scarlatina, sclerotium, ball turret, caddis fly, calomel, cock-and-bull story, codbank, fasces, fava and 13 more...
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little light in the loafers
merman, divine, sassafras, jockstrap, milquetoast, defrocked, poppycock, murse, fabulous, ab fab, panache, gild the lily and 51 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cock-and-bull story.
gangerh and maybe 'bullshit'? Jan 30, 2008
gangerh hence 'a load of cock' Jan 30, 2008
treeseed Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
noun
Date: 1778
: an incredible story told as true Jan 30, 2008