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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a load of codswallop" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express disbelief or to dismiss something as nonsense or rubbish.
Example: "His explanation for being late was just a load of codswallop; I knew he was lying."
Alternatives: "a bunch of nonsense" or "complete rubbish".
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June 24 , 2014Kevan Jones MP (@KevanJonesMP) In 2010 Boris Johnson said that phone hacking allegations were "a load of codswallop cooked up by the Labour Party".
Boris Johnson, London's mayor, was pressed on Monday to explain why he initially dismissed allegations that the police had failed to notify thousands of victims of phone hacking as "a load of codswallop".
On Monday, London's mayor, Boris Johnson, was asked to explain why he called the accusations of widespread phone hacking at The News of the World "a load of codswallop," in 2010.
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who last year described the hacking issue as a load of codswallop, was also furious that he had not been informed of the payments to Wallis until after his arrest last week.
A transcript of Mayor's Question Time for Sept. 15, 2010, shows that Mr. Johnson called the allegation that phone hacking was much more widespread than the initial police investigation had suggested, "a load of codswallop cooked up by the Labour Party".
Claims in the press that her younger sister's marriage to a notorious Manchester gangster introduced Mark to crime are "a load of codswallop", she says angrily; her sister fled the marriage when her husband became a gangster, and "Mark never knew the Noonans.
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