We get mail. We get phone calls. We get posts on the Discussion Forum. Some of it is informative and useful. Some of it is tosh, twaddle, claptrap - nonsense. It's always the same old tales, plausible but untrue.

Here are our favourites - the Nonsense Nine.

1. The whole nine yards - everyone's favourite; this has to be number one.

2. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

3. POSH

4. The full monty

5. The real McCoy

6. Scot free

7. Golf

8. Raining cats and dogs

9. Dead ringer

See also: well-known misquotations.

Thanks to Bob Killian for the idea for this page, and for the graphic.