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  • 1nonsense — nonsense, twaddle, drivel, bunk, balderdash, poppycock, gobbledygook, trash, rot, bull are comparable when they mean something said or proposed which is senseless or absurd. Nonsense is the most general of these terms; it may be referred to… …

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  • 2nonsense — 1. noun 1) that s a lot of damn nonsense Syn: rubbish, gibberish, claptrap, balderdash, blarney; informal hogwash, baloney, rot, moonshine, garbage, jive, tripe, drivel, bilge, bull, guff, bunk, bosh …

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  • 3Empty Spaces — Song infobox Name = Empty Spaces Artist = Pink Floyd Album = The Wall Released = 30 November 1979 (US), 8 December 1979 (UK) track no = 8 of disc 1 Recorded = April November, 1979 Genre = Art rock/Progressive rock Length = 2:08 Writer = Waters… …

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  • 4empty sacks will never stand upright — Extreme need makes survival impossible. Also used as an argument for taking food or drink (see quot. 1978) 1642 G. TORRIANO Select Italian Proverbs 90 Sacco vuoto non può star in piedi. An emptie sack cannot stand upright: nota, Applied to such… …

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  • 5empty talk — noun loud and confused and empty talk mere rhetoric • Syn: ↑palaver, ↑hot air, ↑empty words, ↑rhetoric • Derivationally related forms: ↑palaver (for: ↑ …

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  • 6empty words — noun loud and confused and empty talk mere rhetoric • Syn: ↑palaver, ↑hot air, ↑empty talk, ↑rhetoric • Derivationally related forms: ↑palaver (for: ↑ …

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  • 7stuff and nonsense — {n.} Foolish or empty writing or talk; nonsense. * /Fred told a long story about his adventures in Africa, but it was all stuff and nonsense./ Often used as an interjection. * /When Jane said she was too sick to go to school, her mother answered …

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  • 8stuff and nonsense — {n.} Foolish or empty writing or talk; nonsense. * /Fred told a long story about his adventures in Africa, but it was all stuff and nonsense./ Often used as an interjection. * /When Jane said she was too sick to go to school, her mother answered …

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  • 9stuff\ and\ nonsense — noun Foolish or empty writing or talk; nonsense. Fred told a long story about his adventures in Africa, but it was all stuff and nonsense. Often used as an interjection. When Jane said she was too sick to go to school, her mother answered, Stuff… …

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  • 10flummery — n. 1. Sowens, sowins or sowans, porridge (made of the dust of oatmeal). 2. Trash, frivolity, chaff, moonshine, trifling, froth, frippery, empty nonsense. 3. Flattery, adulation, blandishment, blarney, empty compliment …

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