poppycock

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• It happened on the same day Jack Phelan, a coach Gallagher adored, died suddenly at 66 after a lifetime that included being the man who ushered Hartford into Division I in 1981, back when many saw that idea as poppycock.

• There's too much of the poppycock—too many of those long-haired, long-winded donkeys playing the miniature creator for my taste.

• The Waif was no poppycock yacht, built to dodge about the Solent and run for Cowes if the wind blew a capful.

• "I knew he'd talked a lot of poppycock about a man who was still living having been shot to death," Whitburn retorted.

• Billy Stark, coming in at the door, thought that sounded like poppycock, but Electra knew it was the wisdom of the chosen.

• Has he really got these ideas—the ambitious poppycock that you talked about?