Banbury tale
Banbury tale
A story that does not make sense or which rambles circuitously without apparent end. The old sailor, after several glasses of whiskey too many, began to tell some rambling Banbury tale, which none of us were able to decipher.
See also: Banbury, tale
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- Banbury
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