Meaning of bull feathers | Babel Free

Definitions

Euphemistic form of bullshit (“false statements”).

euphemistic, form-of, plural, plural-only

Examples

“They would rather stand in the weeds and attack the Republicans with the lie, “Republicans are cutting Medicare to pay for tax cuts for the rich.” As you all know from everything you have heard today, that’s bull feathers. Bull feathers.”

““We heard that you killed some of his trees and did something to his dog,” Roxie ventured, while I held my breath. / That made Delbert angry and he grabbed his cane and waved it about. “THAT’S BULL FEATHERS, THAT’S WHAT THAT IS! THE WIND BLEW SOMETHING FROM MY PLACE ONTO HIS, AND HE SWORE THAT I DUMPED MY TRASH ON HIM.””

“If dates, places, and times don’t quite match what you as the reader feel are correct, you have the writer’s permission to take a pencil, scratch through that offensive piece of bull feathers, and add whatever butters your biscuits.”

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