load of bull butter
- idiom
- Offensive
- That's a complete load of bull butter!
Examples
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I can't believe you fell for that load of bull butter.
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She rolled her eyes and called his story a load of bull butter.
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Don't listen to him—his explanation is a load of bull butter.
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Everything he said about winning the lottery was just a load of bull butter.
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Don't listen to him—his explanation is a load of bull butter.
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Everything he said about winning the lottery was just a load of bull butter.
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She rolled her eyes and called his story a load of bull butter.
Synonyms
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9.8
False or silly talk meant to trick people
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9.7
Something not true that people say to fool others
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9.9
A statement that is completely untrue and makes no sense
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9.9
A rude expression that says something is not true
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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 false or silly
A false statement said on purpose to trick people
Talk that is false and hard to believe
False talk meant to trick people
Complete nonsense that is not true and not believable
Talk that is not true and that people do not believe
Talk that is not true and meant to trick people
Talk that is false and makes no sense
Antonyms
How True
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is an informal euphemistic idiom where the intended meaning 'nonsense/lies' depends on slang usage (bull as in 'bullshit') and not on the literal meaning of 'butter' or the compositional reading of the phrase. Even if a learner knows 'load(s) of' and 'bull' as slang, the addition of 'butter' and the idiomatic coinage make the overall meaning unpredictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Load of bull butter gives a funny, impossible picture: butter made from a bull. A load of that kind of butter would be clearly false, so people use the phrase to call something 'nonsense' or 'lies'.