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A Cock and Bull Story. A Cock and Bull Story (marketed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making of a screen ...
Jan 20, 2006 · One of English literature's most anarchic classics - The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy - adapted by one of cinema's most daring film-makers, A Cock and Bull Story is a comedy from acclaimed ...
Jan 20, 2006 · A Cock and Bull Story. Released 20 January 2006. ... The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy - adapted by one of cinema's most daring film-makers, A Cock and Bull Story is a comedy from acclaimed ...
Aug 11, 2023 · The idiom "a cock-and-bull story" is a well-known expression in English, often used to describe a tale or explanation that is unbelievable, fabricated, or exaggerated. It's a term that's synonymous with falsehood and has been used in various literary works and everyday conversations alike. In the broad spectrum of English idioms, this phrase ...
Cock and bull story. " Cock and bull story " is an English-language idiom for a far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity. It is often used to describe a description of events told by someone who is being deceitful or giving an excuse, perhaps unconvincingly. The first recorded use of the phrase in English was in John ...
Jan 16, 2006 · A Cock And Bull Story (2006) Reviewed by Adrian Hennigan. Updated 20 January 2006. Contains strong language and moderate sex. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon make for an irresistible double-act in ...
‘Cock and bull story’ is one of the most mis-attributed phrases in the language. This reference to ‘a cock’ and ‘a bull’, which is duplicated in all the early 17th and 18th century citations of the phrase, lends support to the view that the stories were about cocks and bulls, that is, fanciful tales, rather than stories told in the Cock or the Bull.
