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"Cockamamie story" nghĩa là gì?
19 Jul, 2022
"Cockamamie story" -> nghĩa là câu chuyện vớ vẩn, vô lý, nực cười.
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The landlord (chủ đất), however, refused to allow them to hire an arborist (chuyên gia trồng cây) to remove dead limbs, even at their own expense, giving them a “cockamamie story about the family not wanting anyone to make improvements,” Mr. Bachrach said.
Danny also said: ‘They came up with this cockamamie story about bullying (bắt nạt) basically – it was basically dog-whistling, that I was bullying my partner.’
“I’m a classically trained pianist so one of my favorite things to do is to take classical pieces and butcher (làm hỏng) them,” Van Deusen said. “I made up a cockamamie story about Frederic Chopin having a younger sister that nobody knew about that wrote ragtime pieces back in the middle of the 19th Century.”
Jacobsen later refused to name her sole source for this cockamamie story and not-so-cleverly insisted, “I believe that what the source told me is true, to him.
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