story vs cock-and-bull story

story and cock-and-bull story both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
story	Yes	No	No	No
cock-and-bull story	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cock-and-bull story is a hyponym of story; that is, cock-and-bull story is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than story:

story: a trivial lie
cock-and-bull story: an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

Other hyponyms of story include fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance.

story (noun)	cock-and-bull story (noun)
a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale	an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
a short account of the news
a trivial lie
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
a record or narrative description of past events

story vs cock-and-bull story

story and cock-and-bull story both are nouns.

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