(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.
Tosh
Definition:
(a.) Neat; trim.
Example Sentences:
(1) After removal of the Z group by catalytic hydrogenation and acetylation Ac-Arg(p-TosH)-NHMe was obtained.
(2) Peter Tosh Founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1962, but fell out and left embittered in 1974.
(3) The Treasury has stopped trying to blame the eurozone for the state of the economy, which is just as well since that was tosh.
(4) Or, to put it more straightforwardly: most of what is in the Bible is complete tosh.
(5) Unfortunately, Julian's tape ends there and as £20 seems an awful lot to charge for this tosh we're including 100 pages of WikiLeaks documents you've already read before.
(6) Photograph: Alamy Some of this may have been tosh – we don’t wave flags because a politician advises us to, but do it quite naturally for sporting events and the like – but at least it was consistent tosh.
(7) I took them and bolted them on to high-end meta-tosh.” His fellow researcher was the youthful Peter Bazalgette, who ended up as chair of the UK arm of Endemol Productions, and who made 1990s lifestyle shows such as Changing Rooms and Ground Force.
(8) Tim Harford of the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less tries to keep his head above the sea of tosh.
(9) Daniel Tosh continues to broadcast in the States, unbowed by the row that greeted his unpleasant response to a female heckler (“Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?”).
(10) He admits it has been the most difficult aspect of his job, but it has not deterred him from taking the government to task on issues including underperforming academy trusts and, most recently, plans to expand grammar schools to benefit the poor, which he dismissed as “palpable tosh and nonsense” .
(11) If they want to sit down and argue with me, some of them are talking out their backsides, a load of tosh and I'm not accepting it.
(12) CBR just hiked interest rates by 150bp - The military actions in Crimea are not without significant costs forRussua March 3, 2014 Katie Martin (@katie_martin_FX) Tim Ash, Standard Bank: "Complete tosh to think that all this aggressive action by Moscow will have no effect on the Russian economy" March 3, 2014 9.03am GMT Our Ukraine Liveblog My colleague Haroon Siddique is live-blogging the Ukraine crisis in detail again this morning, here: Ukraine crisis: ‘Russia in control of Crimea’ - live updates Russia has ‘complete operational control’ - US official ‘Russian armoured vehicles lining up across border’ Lavrov says China’s views coincide with Russia’s 8.53am GMT The cost of insuring Russia’s government debt against default has jumped to a nine-month high following Putin’s incursion into Crimea, and Russian bonds have also dropped in value.
(13) If you are used to being able to just make up any old tosh and have your marks eagerly repeat it with bells on, it no doubt becomes habit forming.
(14) It started in earnest in 2012, when comedian Daniel Tosh was accused of suggesting it would be funny if a female member of the audience was gang raped there and then.
(15) When Daniel Tosh was told by a female punter that "rape jokes are never funny" he asked the audience, "Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?
(16) He added: “The argument that grammar schools create social mobility is, in the words of the Ofsted chief inspector, ‘tosh and nonsense’,” he added.
(17) Ac-Arg(HCl)-NHMe was prepared by chromatography of the NG-TosH derivative on Dowex 44 (in Cl- form).
(18) "Some are talking out of their backsides, a load of tosh," he said.
(19) The New York Times critic wrote, "Peck plays with considerable skill, also avoiding in his acting the romantic tosh of the writing."
(20) All accounts of its heyday in the early-60s give the impression of Dodd's Brentford Road base being a kind of West Indian Stella Street: Lee Perry recording Delroy Wilson, Peter Tosh introducing Leonard Dillon of the Ethiopians, and Horace Andy queuing for a Sunday morning audition, all while Dodd was helping to piece together the Skatalites.