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

Do you expect me to believe any such cock-and-bull story as that? 
 Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others 

Then he asked himself: Do you really believe this cock-and-bull story? 
 Spiral 

This is the third time you have given me the same cock-and-bull story. 
 Autobiography of a Yogi 

It's only going to sound like some cock-and-bull story to them. 
 The Dreaming Place 

So he came here to drink my ale, and tell his cock-and-bull story. 
 Put Yourself in His Place 

They'll never make me believe that cock-and-bull story about Lady Bearwarden. 
 M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." 

I never heard such a cock-and-bull story in all my life! 
 The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week 

All a cock-and-bull story, that sore foot of yours!-Yes ,yes ;youmay go. 
 The Downfall 

You are not fool enough to believe such a cock-and-bull story as that! 
 The Lamp in the Desert 

You've got some cock-and-bull story about a mysterious telephone call. 
 Talk of the town 

You're surely not silly enough to believe Johnson's cock-and-bull story? 
 A Rock in the Baltic 

What's this cock-and-bull story you've got up about her, anyway? 
 The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors 

He'll tell some cock-and-bull story that will put him to the good with the cops. 
 Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam 

I don't take no more stock in that cock-and-bull story about the lost Mexican mine. 
 In a Hollow of the Hills 

It's a cock-and-bull story, but I give it to you just as I got it. 
 The Tides of Barnegat 

Was ever such a cock-and-bull story in this life? 
 The Poison Belt 

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