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What is a cock-and-bull story?

What is a cock-and-bull story? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity.
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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?

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