And pray, whom do you expect to delude with this cock-and-bull story? |
If it hadn't been for his cock-and-bull story we shouldn't ha' done what we did. |
So you came all the way up here to tell me this cock-and-bull story! |
What cock-and-bull story have you got hold of now, I wonder? |
The New Yorker, August 6, 1932 P. 23 Tells of Blaisdell who tells a cock-and-bull story about going to a publisher's office, and being put off by his secretary. |
Or maybe when you're running late, you make up some cock-and-bull story about being stuck in traffic? |