рассказывать сказки(about something; to offer a complicated excuse for something that is difficult to believe: Every time she is late she gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.4uzhoj)
морочить голову("I guess now we can do some business together." "Not that way," I said. "Huh?" He bent his eyebrows together. (...) "Having stray broads call me up and give me a song and dance so you can say they said they recognized my voice somewhere sometime." (Raymond Chandler)ART Vancouver)
рассказывать байки("Having stray broads call me up and give me a song and dance so you can say they said they recognized my voice somewhere sometime." "The girl's name is Gladys Crane," Breeze said. "So she told me. I never heard of her." (Raymond Chandler)ART Vancouver)
вешать лапшу на уши(about something; to offer a complicated excuse for something that is difficult to believe: Every time she is late she gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.4uzhoj)
наплести с три короба(It had to be that way. Just as when Marriott called me up and gave me a song and dance about a jewel ransom payoff it had to be because I had been to see Mrs. Florian asking about Velma. (Raymond Chandler) ART Vancouver)