What's the difference between balderdash and sausage?

Balderdash


Definition:

  • (n.) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
  • (n.) Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.
  • (v. t.) To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
  • (2) Other balderdash included Nick Clegg's phoney claim : "As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power."
  • (3) The balderdash quotient is high at all party conferences, but at a time like this people will wince more than ever at high-minded phrases from government ministers that disguise a very different reality.
  • (4) That kind of balderdash brings politics into disrepute.

Sausage


Definition:

  • (n.) An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.
  • (n.) A saucisson. See Saucisson.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An ecological study of Micrococcus radiodurans indicated that microorganisms possessing the same morphological and radiation-resistance characteristics as that organism could be isolated from ground beef and from pork sausage.
  • (2) Children with familial history of spondyloarthropathies showing enthesopathy, "sausage fingers" and with the presence of HLA B27, may be classified in the group of spondyloarthropathies.
  • (3) To determine the etiologic role of strenuous manual tasks in relation to epicondylitis, three clinical cross-sectional examinations were performed on meatcutters (N = 102), sausage makers (N = 125), packers (N = 150), and workers in nonstrenuous tasks (N = 332).
  • (4) The parasite is apansporoblastic, polysporous and has characteristics not previously reported in the Microsporida: (1) an electron lucent inclusion not usually seen in Microsporida is prominent and always present; (2) extremely elongated sausage-shaped nuclei occur in the proliferative phase of parasite development; (3) the polar tube development uniquely involves the production of electron dense discs, yet results in the formation of a typical spore; and (4) polar tube development occurs prior to the final division of the multi-nucleate sporont.
  • (5) They now realise there's a link between human rights and the price of sausages."
  • (6) Streptococci were isolated from Italian dry sausage manufactured commercially with and without added starter cultures.
  • (7) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
  • (8) Transfer the dough to a clean work surface, punch out some of the air, then roll into a 30cm-long sausage.
  • (9) In a scene of young soldiers at rest for a few minutes at the front, he takes us into their heads: one full of dire forebodings, another singing, one trying to identify a bird on a tree – soldiers dreaming of girls’ breasts, dogs, sausages and poetry.
  • (10) During atriotomy of the right atrium, a large sausage-shaped mass of milky-pinkish color was found.
  • (11) Cultures of 68 samples of fresh pork sausage purchased locally were incubated at 37 and 43 C, with and without Tergitol No.
  • (12) We evaluated the effect of a compound containing alginic acid plus antacid (extra-strength Gaviscon) versus active control antacid with equal acid-neutralizing capacity on intraesophageal acid exposure following a high-fat meal (61% fat: sausage, egg, and biscuit).
  • (13) A quality evaluation was made of frankfurter-type sausages made from hand and mechanically deboned meat from various parts of turkey carcasses.
  • (14) As people, they are very different, but they have almost all gone through the same educational sausage machine to become what are known as “énarques” (as in École nationale d’administration), the folk who run the country.
  • (15) As a 53-year-old man who enjoys a sausage roll, I have been worrying more about my cholesterol levels recently than about the symptoms of my MS, and here comes a pill that promises to deal with both.
  • (16) L. monocytogenes was recovered from 20 of 41 samples of frozen ground beef, 12 of 23 samples of pork sausage, and 7 of 22 samples of poultry.
  • (17) The first, when the straight X-ray of the abdomen and barium followthrough demonstrate an axial stenosis of the small intestines with dilation of the proximal loops; the second (between the 7th and 20th days) when the loop affected by the hematoma takes on a characteristic "palissade" or "spring" -like sausage appearance; finally the third (after the 3rd week), when only thickening of the haustrations persists with progressive return to normal.
  • (18) The aim of this study was to determine the resistance of Toxoplasma gondii cysts to salt (sodium chloride) and condiments (black pepper and garlic) in fresh sausages prepared with experimentally infected pork.
  • (19) I regularly see my doctor, I suffer from depression.” His dietary staple is sausage rolls, four for £1 from the local Greggs store.
  • (20) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.