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stuff and nonsense
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synonyms: bushwah, flapdoodle, bunkum, twaddle, flummery, blague, tommyrot, taradiddle, footle, blatherskite, folderol ???
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Definition:balderdash, twaddle, nonsense, foolishness.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Uses:
"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first—verdict afterwards."
"Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence first!"
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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"[...] And he had it from most undeniable authority, and not one, but many."
"Stuff and nonsense! I don't believe a word of it. It's all a got-up story. [...]"
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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‘Miss Trotwood,’ rejoined Mr. Murdstone, shrugging his shoulders, as he rose, ‘if you were a gentleman—’
‘Bah! Stuff and nonsense!’ said my aunt. ‘Don’t talk to me!’
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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"Have you given up your daily exercise?"
"Ah, that was all stuff and nonsense," the manager said. "I had read too many books."
Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter, p.226 (1948)
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