"You could have given him a phony story, Steve."
He had to hand me a phony story.
They thought that Ferret had told a phony story, after all, regarding last night's episode.
I thought you'd fallen for a phony story, when you said that there was a bomb in the chandelier.
"But we assumed that was why they invented the phony stories," he said.
She tells a phony story about being attacked that gets on the news.
You were responsible for spreading that phony story around saying I was a police informant.
So that's why all their friends and relatives gave out phony stories about seeing the ghost!
I think people have given him phony stories to see if he'll print anything, and apparently he will.
Even if they did, he'd pass a phony story to them.