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| 单词 | cock-and-bull story |
| 释义 | cock-and-bull storyWord forms: plural cock-and-bull stories countable noun If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true. [informal] Was it him who made you come to us with this cock-and-bull story? cock-and-bull story in British Englishnoun informal an obviously improbable story, esp a boastful one or one used as an excuse cock-and-bull story in American English (ˈkɑkənˈbʊl) an absurd, improbable story Word origin for earlier cockalane < Fr (saillir du) coq en l'âne, lit., (to jump from) the cock to the donkey |
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