Sunday Special-Cock and Bull Story!
Sunday Special! " 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 Day 's 1608 play Law-trickes or Who Would Have Thought It : The tale of a cock and a bull The inns on Watling Street Pub signs of the Cock and the Bull The Cock and the Bull inns in Stony Stratford were staging posts for rival coach lines on Watling Street , the London–Birmingham turnpike road. It is said that local people, regarding the passengers staying at the inns as a source of news, were told fanciful stories; there was even rivalry between the two inns as to who could tell the most outlandish story. These inns are still in existence: the Cock Hotel is documented to have existed [in one form or an...