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What (who) is cock-and-bull story - definition
cock-and-bull story
(cock-and-bull stories)
If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true. (INFORMAL)
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cock-and-bull story
Absurd story, exaggerated tale, canard.
cock and bull story
¦ noun informal a ridiculous and implausible story.
Examples of use of cock-and-bull story
1. The Political Section of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs immediately branded the news item as a cock and bull story.
2. Last year she starred alongside comedian Steve Coogan in the hit British film A Cock And Bull Story.
3. Let me instruct you, with the excitement felt only by true cinéastes sharing true gold dust, to go and see A Cock And Bull Story.
4. "Is the director who made the most boring sex film ever (8 Songs) really the one to adapt this cock and bull story?
5. As with many of his films, Winterbottom was shooting this movie, titled ‘‘A Cock and Bull Story,‘‘ in a jumpy, hand–held documentary style.