FabSwingers.com forum: You know the restaurant cock and bull

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Is that a play on cuck and bull ? Or plain old cock and bull ? It just dawned on me ... the connection

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

That’s where I ll be doing all my meets and greets in future

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pretty sure it’s plain cock and bull but sure you never know

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's presumably from the phrase "cock and bull story" as in total nonsense.

But ya never know

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

It’s deffo gonna be my code word for fab - all just a load of cock and bull

By *adypleasercossacMan
over a year ago

antrim

There is definitely no connection between cock and bull and cuck and bull other than the denotation of 'bull' and the phonic similarity of cuck and cock.

Cuckold is derived from cuckoo. Referencing the behaviour of the cuckoo laying its eggs in the nest of another bird.

The notion of the cock and bull story is rooted in the actual cock and bull inn near Banbury Cross. It was a well knowen lodging house for traveling sales men and peddlers. They would meet in the evening and tell each other talk tales of their exploits. Hence a cock and bull story came to be the term we used when we knew the tale we were being told by another was a little truth garnished with a lot of lies but told, nevertheless in an engaging and entertaining manner.

There is more wher that came from.