Usage of "cock-and-bull story"

Portuguese

Catalan

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

Synonyms

Examples for "fairytale"

But is this fairytale of urban planning too good to be true? 
 The Guardian 

It was a fairytale that actually happened to my life last year. 
 The Guardian 

In the second half, their fairytale continued and they doubled their lead. 
 The South African 

One way or another, that fairytale will reach its conclusion on Saturday. 
 The Guardian 

On a sunny morning in spring they suggest knights in a fairytale. 
 T. Tembarom 

This is the real Indian fairy tale of the birth of Mon-daw-min. 
 Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know 

It was like a fairy tale come true, for both of them. 
 Journey 

You can't disguise yourself-anymore than the Princess in the fairy tale. 
 Red Pepper's Patients / With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in... 

She saw a new world, like a vision in a fairy tale. 
 Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid 

The environment struck them as the setting of an unfriendly fairy tale. 
 Death of a Red Heroine 

The old Chinese fairy story hits upon a fundamental and vital truth. 
 The Mind and Its Education 

I've never read a fairy story that reads quite like this one. 
 The Angel Stone 

The purely imaginative or fanciful, and here belongs the so-called fairy story. 
 Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic 

The thought of the fairy story flashed back into the lawyer's mind. 
 Red-Robin 

It was a fairy night, and the thing was a fairy story. 
 The Sleuth of St. James's Square 

The wicked slaves expended their pent up emotions in song and dance. 
 Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States... 

SOCRATES: Again; you sometimes accompany the lyre with the song and dance? 
 Alcibiades I 

On her withdrawal the chorus break once more into song and dance. 
 The Greek View of Life 

Music and song and dance, with cymbals, and stringed instruments, and drums. 
 The Tarn of Eternity 

It's not just a song and dance that raises Brett's spirits, though. 
 The South African 

Usage of cock-and-bull story in English

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 

Translations for cock-and-bull story

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Meanings of cock-and-bull story in English