Sentence examples for a bollocks to from inspiring English sources

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And the penalty fines handed to wearers of a "Bollocks to Blair" T-shirt.

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Jarman wasn't slow to give a bollocking to people he wasn't pleased with; this, too, is a diminishing trend among film-makers who live in fear of biting the hand that throws them scraps.

I think it's a load of bollocks to walk around saying you're something when you're not.

Souness defended his decision because he had such a shortage of options but admitted it was a "kick in the bollocks" to see how awful Dia played.

'Hell, somebody's gotta come up once in a while and say bollocks to all that mainstream, glamour stuff.' One feels, though, that fashion photography is no longer enough for Terry Richardson, that the rush he got from recording, then displaying, his own X-rated reality show will be both a catalyst for his already hyperactive creative imagination, and a hard(core) act to follow.

This blog was inspired by two of my favourite feminist opponents on Twitter, @pennyred (the journalist Laurie Penny of the New Statesman and the Guardian) and @jonanamary, the activist, who was so delighted by my comment about her that she "raises intersectional bollocks to an art form" that she put it in her Twitter bio.

And it's hard to top the lyric on the organ-fuelled Pearl's Cafe: "It's all a load of bollocks, and bollocks to it all".

I was talking about in that press conference where you were there, I said something like "Well, that's a load of bollocks... .. Journalist "Bollocks to that" is what you said.

In one four-week period last spring, Mourinho's vials of poison were administered to Brendan Rodgers, accused of failing to appreciate his own goalkeeper; Graeme Souness, impugned for his managerial record; Sky Sports, blackballed for providing a critical appraisal; and an unsuspecting Chelsea ballboy, bollocked for throwing a ball to a Manchester City player.

Meanwhile, commoners mutter Cockney slang such as "Bollocks to 'is, we'll be away for a bevvy".

Bollocks to that – everyone's damaged, we are a world of wounded people, trying the best we can".

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