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.

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?