une histoire à dormir debout
........une histoire ennuyeuse, peu intéressante, peu crédible, invraisemblable, absurde ou illogique.
debout = upright, standing up
(not to be confused with début = start or beginning)
peu = little / hardly
invraisemblable = unlikely, improbable
So, une histoire à dormir debout originally meant a story which was so boring it made you sleep standing up; indeed, it can still have that meaning. It has also come to mean a wildly exaggerated story, a tall tale or a cock and bull story.
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