(1) Instead, we internalise all the guff telling us that poverty is the inevitable result of an individual’s moral decrepitude.
(2) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
(3) If we cannot talk about redistribution, what is the point of this guff on social mobility?
(4) Forget all that ministerial guff about the necessity of cutting the public sector to spur economic growth.
(5) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
(6) At least it trumps its predecessor thanks to the inclusion of the word ‘girt’, which undercuts all the guff about “golden soil” and being “young and free” by virtue of sounding like an Irishman saying ‘girth’.
(7) Forget the guff about the need for further environmental investigation (which in any case has already been done) and about which this carelessly non-green government does not give a fig.
(8) Nobody, not even Geoff Boycott, cares about such inane guff.
(9) In fact, I don't think there's a single product in the entire cosmetics industry that prompts as much guff from advertisers, PRs and shop assistants as moisturisers, and that really is saying something.
(10) But the point needs making: the idea that they are run by sports-phobic softies is up there with all the guff talked about immigration, health and safety and the rest.
(11) Cody offers a standing rebuke to all the guff being spouted about a dearth of right-wing comedy.
(12) Angling, wildlife and heritage groups on Thursday attacked new proposals for a £34bn tidal barrage across the Severn estuary, with one telling MPs that environmental benefits touted by proponents of the barrage are "spin" and "guff".
(13) He needs us to believe that commercial management techniques - performance-related pay, new employment contracts and efficiency targets - are what's needed, rather than sentimental guff about public spirit.
(14) The resulting disembodiment of their mouth-guff will have an air of the supernatural or even divine.
(15) You know it's ruinous guff and adds nothing to the human experience, but you can't miss an episode.
(16) Or as if diversity of leadership and ownership did not really matter, as long as the data-driven, responsively designed new news becomes a radical and successful enough departure from the drab anecdote laden guff put out by those other men.
(17) Statements from the insurance industry are vague and nebulous – plenty of reassuring guff about encouraging market conditions, rather than new insurance products we can actually buy.
(18) Is it, for all Nick Clegg's guff about "progressive cuts", that the real agenda is to complete the demolition job on welfare states that was started in the 1980s?
(19) Tech City and Year of Code may be lovely and shiny, but we need to move beyond the PR guff.
(20) <Insert guff about how it might be the stroke of luck he needs to compile a matchwinning 62,867 not out here>.
Tripe
Definition:
(n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
(n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You've just reminded me I have to go to the tripe shop tomorrow," one correspondent tells him.
(2) But Fergus's parents came into the restaurant and reported back that they enjoyed the tripe and onions – which reminds me of the smell of elephant's cage.
(3) Trim the tripe and pass the vinegar … Nothing, of course, diminishes the fact that BuzzFeed is an internet phenomenon – and an increasingly ominous media contender whenever publishers gather.
(4) A comparison was made of the multiplication of bacteria in specimens of tripe processed in different ways.
(5) Tripe Catalan I am no fonder of boiled knitting than the next man, but I assure you that this is rather different from normal tripe.
(6) Boris Johnson tweeted on Saturday night that reports of a challenge were “tripe”.
(7) Serves 1, takes 2¼ hours tenpence worth of tripe (maybe ¼lb) 2 onions salt, pepper handfuls of herbs 2 tomatoes 1 dessertspoon tomato paste Prepare a pot of water with the seasonings and one of the onions in it; into this, averting your eyes, empty the piece of damp blanket you will have received from the butcher.
(8) He calls the Keynesian idea that you can raise economic activity by increasing the budget deficit "tripe".
(9) "That is absolute tripe," say Bredon Conservatives, sitting on the lawn.
(10) The talking of tripe with the tufty-headed fellows from the estate agent.
(11) The first show concentrated on the growth of the tripe industry during the first world war, and the actor Philip Jackson claimed a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as it was then known, for playing 22 characters, including a prison warder, King George V, a sausage dealer, the Salford Ripper and Baron von Richthoven.
(12) In cancer patients with tripe palms alone, the most common underlying neoplasm was pulmonary carcinoma (53% of cases), whereas patients with both tripe palms and acanthosis nigricans frequently had gastric (35% of cases) or pulmonary (11% of cases) carcinomas.
(13) At 21, I was asking the woman who ran the tripe stall in Leeds Market about the cheapest place to buy tablecloths.
(14) There are times – archetypal digital times – when too much hype and PR tripe gets in the way.
(15) Harris said the bishop's comments were "ill-informed tripe".
(16) The majority (94%) of published cases of tripe palms occurred in patients with cancer; only five patients showed no evidence of an associated malignancy.
(17) "They talked, incomprehensibly, about "focused subgenre slates", which turned out to be management b******s for cutting edge tripe like Snog, Marry, Avoid.
(18) Much of the exported pork will be offal, tripe, trotters, ears and other parts of the so- called "fifth quarter" – the parts Brits tend to turn their nose up at, but the Chinese savour.
(19) His anti-Muslim tripe was not an isolated incident of bigotry.
(20) We describe two patients with triple palms and pulmonary tumors, and review the 77 patients with idiopathic- and malignancy-associated tripe palms reported in the world literature.