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Poppycock
noun
Foolish talk; nonsense.
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It was poppycock and he knew it all along.
And the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) believes the measure "undermines science education in Tennessee public schools".Supporters of the measure, such as state Senator Bo Watson, a co-sponsor, say this is alarmist poppycock.
But a suggestion by France's Jacques Chirac that no troops would operate in Iraq under a NATO flag is poppycock.
BOTH candidates "are flinging rather a lot of political poppycock," says FactCheck.org, a website that does what it says it does.
So Mr Obama is talking poppycock when he blames Mr McCain for lost jobs.
It is in the nature of religions that the next fellow is liable to dismiss your deeply held beliefs as poppycock.
It is or should be in the nature of liberal societies that you are free either to subscribe to the poppycock or denounce it as poppycock, without forfeiting your job in either event.So what justifies setting aside this commonsensical rule in the case of Mr Hoddle?
But perhaps my poppycock detector should have been more finely tuned before I linked to the piece.
The money, just part of what the Salvation Army lost after being hoodwinked into ploughing pounds 6.4 million into a "poppycock" investment scheme, was used to pay off "enormous" personal debts run up by its trusted financial adviser, Stuart Ford.
Indeed, the odd claim that BAE's engineering support of Team GB had "contributed at least 19 medals" at the Olympics was met with the tame rejoinder of "poppycock".
Huxley, however, was not the only genius talking poppycock about politics, and few of the others had his cachet as a novelist.
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