cock-and-bull story
Significado (Inglés)
A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity.
Sinónimos
fairy story
farfetched story
implausible story
improbable story
Traducciones
falòrnia bandomeria enganyifa
Jägerlatein Räuberpistole
histoire à dormir debout gasconnades de chasseurs
fanfaronata da cacciatore
onzinverhaal
Contos de fada
kocakarı masalıEtimología (Inglés)
Unknown. The phrase is noted as similar in meaning and form to French coq-à-l'âne (“satire, incoherent story”, literally “cock to the ass”) which was borrowed into Scots as cockalane. theories of origin Theories of the term's ultimate origin include allusions to stories which feature talking animals and that the term refers to gossip typical of what were historically two coaching inns, The Cock and The Bull, in Stony Stratford, England.
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