tripe and onions

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Noun

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tripe and onions (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Nonsense; folly.
    Synonyms: gammon, gammon and pickles, tripe
    • 1971, Heron Carvic, Witch Miss Seeton, page 59:
      Well, sir, there he was standing up spouting a lot of tripe and onions and Miss Seeton was taking the odd note.
    • 1996, Constance Laux, Touched by Magic, page 234:
      All that nonsense about charms and protection against witches. . . . It's a lot of tripe and onions, that's what it is.
    • 1996, Janice Bennett, Karen Ranney, Doreen Owens Malek, Angel Love, page 214:
      “It's gammon and pickles. That's what it is. Angels and wishes and answers to prayers! Really, Miss Gordon, it's tripe and onions!”
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tripe,‎ onion.