tripe and onions
English
Noun
tripe and onions (uncountable)
- (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!”
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tripe, onion.