cook sth up
— Phrasal Verb with cook /kʊk/ verbDefinition
informal
› to invent a story, plan, etc, usually dishonestly: He arrived late and cooked up some excuse about the bus being late.
(Definition of cook sth up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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