a lot of garbage/nonsense

noun phrase

informal
: something very foolish
I think their ideas are a lot of garbage/nonsense.

Examples of a lot of garbage/nonsense in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There’s been a lot of nonsense between the end of the Super Bowl and today, but the two parties are, effectively, in the same place. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024 Lots of equipment, food and packaging, plus animals and porters, means a lot of garbage. Alton C. Byers, The Conversation, 1 May 2024 And as it was getting cleared of the invasive tall grasses, a lot of garbage that had accumulated over the years was revealed. Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024 Not a lot of garbage time available to bloody rookies. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023 That there’s basically a lot of nonsense that was cobbled together for the story, and the only thing saving Inside Man from being a complete failure is the performances. Andy Meek, BGR, 3 Nov. 2022 Well, this is a conservative activist who went pretty far down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial thinking and apocalyptic thinking, and was encouraged by then President Trump to believe a lot of nonsense about what had happened in the 2020 election. ABC News, 27 Mar. 2022 Oh, there’s a lot of nonsense that gets passed around at the table. The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Oct. 2020 The voting public is always asked to put up with a lot of nonsense during campaigns. Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2020

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“A lot of garbage/nonsense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20lot%20of%20garbage%2Fnonsense. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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