cock-and-ball story

plural cock-and-ball stories

1. Eggcorn of cock-and-bull story.

   [H]e imposed on the Captain of Landport by a cock and ball story, who allowed him to pass the barrier.

   2017, Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins, quoting Rice Price, “Shortages”, in Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History, Penguin Books, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 67

   3 more examples

   Upon complaining, I got a "cock-and-ball" story that they had told me it only supported 133MHz on the phone - too bad for them that every phone call made by/into the office is automatically tape-recorded!

   1996 March 16, David Burch <daveb@softword.demon.co.uk>, “Re: OEM motherboards”, in comp.periphs.scsi (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2026

   With the lack of factual sex education in this country, there are still people who actually take these "cock-and-ball stories" quite literally and end up severely oversimplifying our sexual development.

   2010, Jallen Rix, “Sexuality and Spirtiuality — Twins Hatches from the Same Egg”, in Ex-Gay, No Way: Survival and Recovery from Religious Abuse, Findhorn Press, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 153

   Everybody is hard-pressed in this inflationary period and to get carried away by the cock and ball story of some tricksters is definitely quite unwarranted and unwanted in our lives.

   2017 January 29, Jyotiranjan Biswal, Alive, number 411, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, My Pet Peeve, page 50