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cock-and-bull stories

cock-and-bull stories is the plural of cock-and-bull story.

Meaning of cock-and-bull story

Noun

cock-and-bull story (plural cock-and-bull stories)

  1. (idiomatic) A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity.
    • The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg—especially as Peter Coffin’s cock and bull stories about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person whom I now companied with.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XIII, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Questions about cock-and-bull stories

What is cock-and-bull stories the plural of?
Cock-and-bull stories is the plural of cock-and-bull story.

Words near cock-and-bull stories in the dictionary

  1. cock-a-leekie
  2. cock-a-leekies
  3. cock-a-whoop
  4. cock-and-ball stories
  5. cock-and-ball story
  6. cock-and-bull stories
  7. cock-and-bull story
  8. cock-and-hen club
  9. cock-and-hen clubs
  10. cock-and-pinch
  11. cock-and-pinches

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