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• “As for "The non-English respect community more", that kind of tosh comes across as scrabbling for things to feel superior about - which means you have a chip on your shoulder?”

  The Guardian: Why are English sporting heroes so dull? | Kevin McKenna

• “The only issue tonight where Wayne and I disagreed except on matters of detail was about Peter Hain's absolute 'tosh' about the Tories fanning the flames of the demise of the Union.”

  But who lit the bloody fire, Wayne.

• “Not that particular kind of tosh, perhaps," agreed Mackenzie.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919

• “Don't talk that 'tosh' to me," cried Miss Toombs vehemently.”

  Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl

• “Scaife was lifted into a chair; ice was applied to his head; his feet were thrust into a "tosh" filled with steaming water.”

  The Hill A Romance of Friendship

• “A spokesman for Facebook said it was "tosh" that Facebook could ruin a relationship.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “This is such obvious tosh - the kind of tosh that Labour and the Lib Dems also come out with all the time - that no one is going to believe it.”

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• “He added: My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.”

  The Guardian: VS Naipaul finds no women writer his literary match – not even Jane Austen

• “Literary journalist Alex Clark said: "Is he really saying that writers such as Hilary Mantel, AS Byatt, Iris Murdoch are sentimental or write feminine tosh?”

  The Guardian: VS Naipaul finds no women writer his literary match – not even Jane Austen

• “There are genuine arguments to be made in favour of the current suspension by the Bank of its 2% CPI target, but you weaken those arguments by peddling tosh.”

  The Guardian: Inflation rise: Grim and grimmer | Editorial

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