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cock-and-bull story definition

cock·-and-bull· story (käk′ən bo̵ol′)

an absurd, improbable story

Etymology: for earlier cockalane < Fr (saillir du) coq en l'âne, lit., (to jump from) the cock to the donkey

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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