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The phrase "a bollocks" is not correct in standard written English; the correct form is "bollocks" without the article "a." It is typically used in informal contexts to express disbelief or to describe something as nonsense or rubbish.
Example: "That explanation was complete bollocks; it made no sense at all."
Alternatives: "nonsense" or "rubbish."
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10.23pm BST Kaymer is busy making a bollocks of 8.
And the penalty fines handed to wearers of a "Bollocks to Blair" T-shirt.
But perhaps he could argue to himself that such support would fit the true punk ethos, in not giving a bollocks what others think.
"I was wary of the quick leap to judgment – 'Dickens was a scoundrel.' An Irish friend of mine said, 'Oh he was a bit of a bollocks, wasn't he.' But there's a whole spectrum of Dickens.
The response from the vast majority of conventional energy analysts to the idea of climate risk has been largely negative, with one recently saying publicly: " I think it's a bollocks subject.
More than once – for example, when he speculated on whether it would be blasphemous to say that "God is a bollocks" on air – he was denounced by listeners whose view was upheld by the broadcast complaints body.
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The referee is busy giving them all a bollocking.
"Agh, I've trapped a bollock!" he yells.
"But Trevor sized up the situation and gave me a bollocking.
Kelvin MacKenzie [who later became the paper's most aggressively rightwing editor] gave me a bollocking.
Has she ever called him into her office to give him a bollocking?
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