cobblers
- noun
- /ˈkɒbləz/
- Slang
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tontería
- That explanation sounds like a load of cobblers to me.
So a lot of this stuff that was out there on social media is just Cobblers.
- So a lot of this stuff that was out there on social media is just Cobblers.
- I suppose if you'd ask me up until that meeting with Paul McKenna about the whole mind over matter stuff, I would have sort of said it's a load of Cobblers.
Examples
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Don't listen to him; he's talking complete cobblers.
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She dismissed the rumors as utter cobblers.
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That's a load of cobblers!
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I can't believe he said that; it's total cobblers.
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Don't listen to him; he's talking complete cobblers.
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She dismissed the rumors as utter cobblers.
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That explanation sounds like a load of cobblers.
Synonyms
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6.7
Nonsense talk that is not true
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9.9
Silly talk that is not true
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9.7
Something not true that people say to fool others
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3.3
Not having any clear meaning
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9.9
Talk or ideas that are untrue and not worth believing
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9.9
Talk that is not true or is silly
A story or idea that is untrue and silly
Something that is not true or important
A short shout that shows something is nonsense or impossible to understand
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Etymology
The word cobblers is also British slang for 'nonsense'. A helpful way to remember this is the same rhyming idea: cobblers awls rhymed with 'balls', and 'balls' was used to call something rubbish, so cobblers came to mean 'nonsense'.