bollocks

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'I have what I call a bollocks list where I just sit in meetings and I write down some of the absurd language we use - and we are all guilty of this, myself included.

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  • Even if we force it past our lot by getting the Whips to chew a few backbench bollocks, the rural lords will junk it, they don't want motorways through their game parks ... ' —  Gridlock
  • 'Seeing as we have you by the bollocks, as my brother would term it, I don't see why we can't be friends. —  Dangerous Lady
  • If I did tell them and they found out it was another load of old bollocks, then I might be committing everybody to going through this system again, and they would die. —  Bravo-Two-Zero
  • 'I have what I call a bollocks list where I just sit in meetings and I write down some of the absurd language we use - and we are all guilty of this, myself included. —  Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs
  • And then subsequently, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols," the word bollocks, the police decided was a rude word and so we were arrested for using the word bollocks on the Sex Pistols 'album. —  Richard Branson's life at 30,000 feet
 

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  1. Middle English balloks; see bollix.
 

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