Nonsense Phrases

Phrases

• A load of bull
• A load of cobblers
• A load of codswallop
• A load of crap
• A load of rubbish
• A victory for common sense
• All my eye and Betty Martin
• Between love and madness lies Obsession (Calvin Klein advertising slogan)
• Beyond a joke
• Blow it out your arse
• Blow it out your ear
• Brain fart
• Bunch of crap
• By way of a joke
• Cash for trash
• Common sense
• Crock of shit
• Do a bunk
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Full of bologna
• Garbage Man (Nickname of American football player Michael Bradley)
• Garbage freak
• Garbage in, garbage out
• Garbage mouth
• Garbage something down
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Give me a break
• God rot them
• History is bunk (Henry Ford quotation)
• Horse feathers
• Horse sense
• How wrong can you be?
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• Inside joke
• It's all Greek to me
• It's no joke
• Joke around
• Keen sense of smell
• Know someone in the biblical sense
• Link rot

• Lowering prices forever, that's Comet sense (Comet Electrical Stores advertising slogan)
• Lulled into a false sense of security
• Make sense of
• Many a true word is spoken in jest
• More money than sense
• Motorway madness
• Mumbo jumbo
• No joke
• No nonsense
• No nonsense (John Smith's advertising slogan)
• Not everything in black and white makes sense (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Oh, that way madness lies
• One man's trash is another man's treasure
• Pack of lies
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Perfect sense
• Rot in hell
• Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen novel)
• Sense and Simplicity (Philips advertising slogan)
• Sheer madness
• Sheer nonsense
• Sick joke
• Sixth sense
• Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
• Stop the rot
• Stuff and nonsense
• Talk in riddles
• Talk through your hat
• The joke's over
• The rot has set in
• There's method in my madness
• This is very midsummer madness
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
• Trailer trash
• Trash talk
• What a crock of shit
• Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise
• Whistling Dixie
• White trash
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• You know it makes sense (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)