Synonyms for cock-and-bull story
- fanciful tale
- farfetched story
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- song and dance
- tall story
- tall tale
- unbelievable tale
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"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?
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR COCK-AND-BULL STORY
inveracity
nounlie- 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
story
nounlietale
nounmade-up storyRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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