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单词 cock-and-bull
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cock-and-bull
(b) cock-and-bull: used as a modifier to designate a long, rambling, implausible, or untrue story, esp. one used as an explanation or excuse. Chiefly in cock-and-bull story.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of > rambling tale
tale of a tub1532
cock-and-bull story1670
blind story1699
peramble1824
shaggy dog story1937
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] > of an exaggerated kind
a tale (also gest, song, etc.) of Robin Hoodc1400
tale of a tub1532
Canterbury tale or story?a1550
romanza1622
romance1638
onea1642
Robin Hood tale1653
cock-and-bull story1670
stretcher1674
whid1794
fish-story1819
snake story1826
screamer1831
twister1834
ráiméis1835
Munchausen1840
skyscraper1840
Munchausenism1848
cock1851
snake yarn1891
furphy1916
fanny1930
the old ackamarackus1933
windy1933
1670 W. Annand Pater Noster 165 This is such a Cock and Bull story, as the proverb hath it, that it needs, nay deserves to have no answer, but a hiss.
1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio II. 77 Not to tire you with the repetition of all the cock and bull stories which I have formerly told you, etc.
1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow I. xvi. 230 He told me a cock-and-a-bull story about his father's devotion to science.
1884 Belgravia Holiday No. 64 They must first have cut the wires, and then come in to the cantonment to tell me this cock-and-bull tale.
1921 S. Gordon Avenger iii. xv. 384 Good Lord, Ken, did you drag me down here to tell me this cock-and-bull yarn?
1952 F. Yerby Woman called Fancy xvi. 305 I'm going to invite them in—let them search the place. Give them a cock and bull story about sending the boy away with one of the servants.
2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 39 Now he was just an old man investigating a cock-and-bull story.
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