Luna Linh
2021-03-10 01:03
Cock and bull story British humorous spoken language noun phrase informal
This noun phrase is used to describe a story that is made-up or imagined rather than based on facts.
That's a cock and bull story! None of those things is real!
My parents often tell a cock and bull story in order to teach me a lesson.
When I asked him the reason why he was often late for work, he gave me a cock and bull story, but I didn't care to hear what he said.
White lie
Used to imply that someone is acting as if he or she is demure, innocent, sincere or reserved but they may be not
To be dishonest or deceptive and no one can believe
This idiom is said to be originated from the coaching inns The Cock and The Bull which resided in Stony Stratford, England. People rumored that travellers passing these inns would exchange fanciful and exaggerated stories. Despite of the coincidence in names, there was no proof about the connection between the phrase and these inns. Others said this term might come from old folk tales about magical animals and the earliest known citation was in the comic play Law-trickes written in 1608 by an English dramatist John Day.
Do you see anything wrong?
To do something in an unusual way
I guess I like to run against the grain in everything I do.
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