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cock-and-bull story

NOUN
  1. an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

How To Use cock-and-bull story In A Sentence

  • So ended the memorable 14th of August: it will be, doubtless, remembered by many with far from pleasant feelings; and some who have been "gulled" in England may thank Mr. Petersen that a carrier-pigeon freighted with a cock-and-bull story of blood, fire, wreck, and murder, was not despatched on that memorable day. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
  • He told us some cock-and-bull story about having lost all his money.
  • He was bribed by that scoundrel, Jingle, to put me on a wrong scent, by telling a cock-and-bull story of my sister and your friend Tupman!
  • 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. Sole Music
  • He gave me some cock-and-bull story about having to be at his cousin's engagement party.
  • He told us some cock-and-bull story about having lost all his money.
  • The allegation is an utterly cock-and-bull story about the Chinese military based on a wild guess and illogical reasoning, " the English-language Xinhua commentary said.
  • Humorous half-columns in the local papers, written in the customary silly way by unlicked cub reporters just out of grammar school, tickled the fancy of San Francisco for a fleeting moment in that the steamship Mariposa had rescued some sea-waifs possessed of a cock-and-bull story that not even the reporters believed. CHAPTER XVI
  • He told us some cock-and-bull story about having lost all his money.
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