full of tripe
- idiom
- Archaic
- His explanation was full of tripe and convinced no one.
Examples
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The article was criticized for being full of tripe and lacking substance.
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People were annoyed because the report was simply full of tripe from start to finish.
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His latest book is full of tripe.
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Why is your argument full of tripe?
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The presentation was full of tripe, leaving the audience confused and uninterested.
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Despite its flashy cover, the novel was full of tripe and offered little in terms of plot.
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Many critics found the documentary to be full of tripe, making it difficult to take seriously.
Synonyms
1
9.9
Shows no real feeling and is not sincere
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6.0
Things people say that are completely untrue or pointless
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9.7
Something that contains a lot of nonsense and useless information
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7.0
Not having useful information or any real meaning
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7.5
Not having real importance or value
Words or ideas that are complete nonsense and worthless
Containing many false or silly statements that are hard to believe
Antonyms
How Meaningful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward composition: 'full of' (completely filled with) plus 'tripe' (nonsense) yields 'filled with nonsense', so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings can infer the idiomatic sense. Only if a learner knows only the literal culinary sense of 'tripe' (animal offal) would the phrase be confusing, but given the provided constituent definition it is transparently compositional.
Etymology
Full of tripe may come from the cheap animal food called tripe, the stomach lining people once ate and often thought was poor quality and tasteless. So saying something is full of tripe makes a picture of it being full of useless stuff, which is why it means 'nonsense'.