cock and bull story
noun
• an implausible story used as an explanation or excuse.
• "nobody believes this cock and bull story about the sacking incident"
Similar:
fairy story/tale,
made-up story,
trumped-up story,
fake news,
fabrication,
concoction,
piece of fiction,
fiction,
falsification,
falsity,
lie,
untruth,
falsehood,
fib,
deception,
barefaced lie,
(little) white lie,
half-truth,
exaggeration,
prevarication,
departure from the truth,
alternative fact,
yarn,
story,
red herring,
rumour,
myth,
flight of fancy,
figment of the imagination,
pretence,
pretext,
sham,
ruse,
wile,
trickery,
stratagem,
tall story,
tall tale,
whopper,
porky,
pork pie,
porky pie,
terminological inexactitude,
bullshit,
bulldust,
