Sentence The phrase 'talk rot' is not a common phrase in formal, written English.
It is more commonly used in informal speech. For example, you could say, "Stop talking rot and give me an honest answer!".
(Then excitedly) But I'm talking rot.
Members of the species have, after all, been talking rot for millennia, and its warning signs are well known.
Though initially disgusted by the expatriate community, which, as the fictional Hadley remembers, "preened and talked rot and drank themselves sick," Hemingway was ineluctably drawn into its orbit — and then into the orbit of the rich, who "had better days and freer nights.
"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told his students, in 1914, "save only this: if you work hard and intelligently, you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot".
Kitty Empire of The Observer characterized its subject matter as "wiffle of the highest order", but wrote that "one of the pleasures of Aguilera is that she can use polysyllables, even when talking the rot that fills women's mags".
Some come from here and spend their days eating snails and clams, and talking hilarious philosophical rot for each other's gentle entertainment.
For all the talk of decay and rot and decomposition and disappointment, London nightlife really isn't that bad.
— Jeff Gordinier Boston Magazine: René Redzepi goes to Yale to talk about old carrots, rotting seaweed and the power of a great roast chicken.
Halifax's diary reflects the fury of it: "I thought Winston talked the most frightful rot, also Greenwood, and after bearing it for some time I said exactly what I thought of them...
(A diary that talks about finding rotting rib leftovers in his hotel room with a personal note from Bud Selig, MLB Commissioner. If you haven't checked out this diary yet, then I highly suggest you do so soon).
