cock-and-bull story
短语n. 荒诞的故事, 无稽之谈
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词形变化
cock-and-bull stories
复数
cock-and-bull stories
别名
cock-and-ball story
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity.
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同义词 3
上位词 5
词源
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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