(1) He went over to win a penalty against Mexico the other day, and blah blether blah.
(2) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
(3) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
(4) but during a very dark period of my life, tapes I made of Peter Green era Fleetwod Mac (the best blues player in the history of ever...) and Free (best band in history of blah blah...) virtually saved me from an early exit...." Katewashere : "My Dad bought me a walkman in 1984.
(5) So I could fret about the fact that my dog has a capsule wardrobe and worry about being a crazy dog lady and blah blah blah.
(6) Not from tax increases, says Mitt, and blahs along about how all those new jobs he's going to create will increase revenue.
(7) You could be run over tomorrow, blah, blah …" Oh, thank you, just before I drive across London to visit another chum.
(8) It contained blah about “smart cities” and equity funds, even a rupee-denominated bond.
(9) [Police say:] 'Oh, you know, loads of these cars get stolen, so we just need to check you are who you say you are, blah blah blah.'
(10) This contained a lot of false and frothy promises to “initiate an inclusive process of national debate …” blah, blah, blah.
(11) "Guardian readers are all like: 'Oh but you have to work for your money, blah blah blah and all that.'
(12) En route we've had Rick Santorum insisting that he does not equate homosexuality with bestiality – or, as he memorably phrased it, " man on dog " – and that when he had appeared to make a disobliging reference to black people , he had in fact been speaking of "blah" people.
(13) He says: ‘Right, this club has just called me – blah-blah-blah.
(14) It was frightening at first, but she preferred it to being in a band, where 'You're not going to do anything unless you're onstage with your specific people and your lights and your songs and... blah .'
(15) All the cliches – not taking life for granted, blah, blah, blah.
(16) Semi-autobiographical in focus, the album was a dog of monumental proportions, weak songs failing to carry a catastrophically weak concept (girl from wrong side of the tracks makes it in the big, wide blah blah blah).
(17) How much more interesting and revealing this show would have been if all of the liberal blah-blah here and the Ivy League newsroom nebbishes had been replaced by more current conservative agitprop and rightwing message enforcers.
(18) But out in The Real World, leopard print still has ridiculous connotations, such as the ones I mentioned above: Bet Lynch, untrustworthy temptresses, blah blah blah.
(19) The latest jobs report had the unemployment rate at 7.7%, the lowest level since December 2008 but still blah, and inflation at 1.6.
(20) "I didn't fall for the trick of Jonathan, 'I had no shoes, blah, blah,' all that stuff he was saying when he was campaigning," Kuti said.
Bunkum
Definition:
(n.) Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
(n.) See Buncombe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Touched as I am by this sudden outpouring of concern for the security of my seat, it is, of course, complete bunkum.
(2) Philips said the two main arguments against each contender – that McGowan doesn’t look like a premier and Smith is not in parliament – are bunkum.
(3) Claims by the energy industry that they can’t cut prices because they bought their supplies far in advance are nothing more than bunkum,” she said.
(4) Predictably, the debate that has followed stays within these polarised parameters of accepting it as brave or dismissing it as "bunkum" , and has failed to look at the content of the reforms being proposed.
(5) Debi Goenka, the Mumbai activist who challenged Adani’s environmental licence for its mine in the Queensland land court in 2014, said Australian government figures continued to rely on arguments about imported coal lifting Indians out of poverty, which were “all bunkum”.