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synonyms for cock and bull story
- fiction
- rumor
- yarn
- canard
- chestnut
- clothesline
- defamation
- detraction
- exaggeration
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falsity
- fib
- lie
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- rigmarole
- scandal
- slander
- spiel
- untruth
- cock-and-bull story
- tall story
- untruism
- fanciful tale
- farfetched story
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- song and dance
- tall story
- tall tale
- unbelievable tale
- bunk
- cock-and-bull story
- embellishment
- exaggeration
- farfetched story
- incredible story
- lie
- overstatement
- tall story
- tall tale
- trumped-up story
- yarn
- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- canard
- cock-and-bull story
- deceit
- deception
- defamation
- detraction
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- distortion
- evasion
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- fraudulence
- guile
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invention
- libel
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- obloquy
- perjury
- prevarication
- revilement
- reviling
- slander
- story
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- untruth
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
antonyms for cock and bull story
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How to use cock and bull story in a sentence
The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYNothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTShe also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTA few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSNo law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTObviously a tremendous question arises here as to how a story should be found in Genesis xiv.
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAYThrough the beautiful, windy autumn days, he labored at his difficult task, the task of telling a story.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXThe interest of the story is now at an end; but much yet remains before the conclusion.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSSo everybody began looking for the appearance of his story in all the leading magazines.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXAnd this was all done in the story of Lazarus in such a way that it might surround every grave with illusions for centuries.
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAY