cock-and-bull story (fanciful story) · porkies; whopper (a lie, especially an elaborate but implausible one)
çekim: çoğul Lügengeschichten · tamlayan Lügengeschichten
eş: Ammenmärchen, Lüge, Lügenmärchen, Märchen
köken: Lüge (“lie”) + Geschichte (“story”)
Erzähl mir keine Lügengeschichten!
old wives' tale; cock-and-bull story
çekim: çoğul contes de bonne femme
köken: From bonne femme.
vertelling waarin nonsens wordt vertelt
tale, story (account of an asserted fact or circumstance) · short story (work of fiction shorter than a novel) · count (a quantity counted)
çekim: çoğul contos
eş: pila
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese conto, from Vulgar Latin *contu(s), *comptu(s), from Latin computus (“calculation”). Doublet of cômputo.
aile: continho, conto de fadas, conto do vigário, contozinho
Eu vou contar um conto.
a tall tale, a cock-and-bull story
çekim: çoğul rövarhistorier · tamlayan rövarhistorias
köken: rövare + historia. Cf. Danish røverhistorie and Norwegian Nynorsk røvarhistorie.
dra en rövarhistoria
cock and bull story
çekim: çoğul bajki o żelaznym wilku · tamlayan bajki o żelaznym wilku
köken: Literally, “a story about an iron wolf”.
blatant lie, canard, cock-and-bull story
köken: From ਗੱਪ (gappa).
nnhyrgjesegn, røvarhistorie, skrøne