cock-and-bull story

"It's no cock-and-bull story you'll find it," asserted the Irishman.

The old man's voice: "Where did you get hold of that cock-and-bull story?"

Here, what do you mean by that cock-and-bull story, Dick Dellow?

If it hadn't been for his cock-and-bull story we shouldn't ha' done what we did.

What cock-and-bull story have you got hold of now, I wonder?

And pray, whom do you expect to delude with this cock-and-bull story?

"And I suppose yours was a cock-and-bull story, too," he said.

So you came all the way up here to tell me this cock-and-bull story!

Think you we are all fools to believe in your cock-and-bull story?

Has some woman been turning up with a cock-and-bull story of being my wife?