"your cock-and-a-bull stories"
Eric Partridge defines a "cock and bull story" as "an incredible yarn" -- and he says that it was colloquial in the 19th century (and slang from the 17th century) (Partridge 363).
To Act I or Act II of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.
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Last update: 19 May 1998.