stuff and nonsense
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Hewing to genre conventions, Iris frees herself from Josh’s control and fights back, forcing him to whip up a plan B involving a fine-spun alibi made of stuff and nonsense.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025
As for Princess Margaret, she never quite understood the stuff and nonsense to which she found herself drawn.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2017
True art is when the human psyche's lust for stuff and nonsense is baldly and boldly revealed so that we all weep with shame at just how pathetically self-indulgent we have become.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2014
Mr Salmond dismissed the OBR's assessment as "stuff and nonsense".
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2014
Not such stuff and nonsense as you think.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
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