cock and bull story
cock-and-bull story

No, she couldn't, not after that cock and bull story about cakes.

Do you believe that cock and bull story about his having been stowed away on board ship?

No time to concoct some cock and bull story.

Nobody believes this cock and bull story about the sacking incident.

Hence any suspiciously elaborate tale would become a cock and bull story.

Was his story of the rich investor just a cock and bull story to get us out here without any one knowing?

Today, there is an annual story telling festival to celebrate these Cock and Bull stories.

'Where did you hear that cock and bull story?'

Thus, stories containing fictitious tosh are now known as "cock and bull stories".

This sounds like a cock and bull story, but Russell adds: "I did have a breakdown.

It is also used in the opening titles of the 2006 film, A Cock and Bull Story.

In 2006, he made an appearance in the film A Cock and Bull Story.

The atmosphere on the "Cock and Bull Story" set was chaotic and exuberant.

"Cock and bull story evidently.

Part of the British film A Cock and Bull Story (2006) was made at the Hall.

A Cock and Bull Story.

(In the colloquial usage of the time, a "tale of a tub" is the same as "a cock and bull story.")

God knows why Lucinda Hewitson took it upon herself to come round here and give you that cock and bull story about our being engaged.

Ranse had some cock and bull story about a note from Del Hayter and a trap.

Later that year she played Steve Coogan's agent in A Cock and Bull Story.

While Winterbottom was shooting "A Cock and Bull Story," Eaton worked the phones trying to set up their next project.

Miss Howard has previously made up a cock and bull story about him and Mrs. Raikes to account for his holding his tongue afterwards.

They create a cock and bull story and send Jack and George on a wild goose chase to Tigger's Barn.

The siege and Toby's reconstruction of it are featured in the film version of the novel, A Cock and Bull Story (2006).