| 单词 | cock-and-bull |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock-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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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