poppycock

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.