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to stop the bullbleep

to stop the bullbleep

9.9
Tell someone to stop talking nonsense and focus on the main point
  • idiom
  • Offensive
translation icon : dejar de decir mierda
  • Could you stop the bullbleep and answer my question honestly?

Examples

  • It's time to stop the bullbleep and focus on what really matters.

  • I wish he would stop the bullbleep during meetings!

  • If we're going to make progress, we must stop the bullbleep right now.

  • Can you please stop the bullbleep?

  • Could you stop the bullbleep and answer my question honestly?

  • If we're going to make progress, we must stop the bullbleep right now.

  • It's time to stop the bullbleep and focus on what really matters.

Synonyms

to put up or shut up
vsto stop the bullbleep
  • Slang
6 7.7

Tell someone to do what they say or stop talking

presses for ending nonsense talk rather than demanding action
to stop the bullshoot
vsto stop the bullbleep
  • Offensive
9.9

Tell someone to stop saying silly or untrue things and to speak seriously

focuses on ending nonsense or irrelevant talk rather than falsehood specifically
to shut one's gob
vsto stop the bullbleep
  • UK
9.9

To tell someone rudely to be quiet

is aimed at ending nonsense or irrelevant talk rather than general silence

Antonyms

to keep the conversation going
4 3.4

Make people continue talking so the talk does not stop

How Forceful

to stop the bullbleep
  • Offensive
9.9
to knock it off
  • Informal
321 8.1
to cut it
  • Informal
216 7.2
please
1.0

Surface Forms

stop the bullbleep infinitive
stopped the bullbleep past
stopped the bullbleep past participle
stopping the bullbleep present participle
stops the bullbleep third person singular

Morphology

stop + the + bullbleep

The directive 'stop' plus the determiner 'the' points to halting some content, and the intended referent of 'bullbleep' is clearly a censored expletive meaning 'nonsense', so the overall sense ‘stop the nonsense’ is partially recoverable. However, 'bullbleep' is a nonstandard/censored form whose literal parts ('bull' + 'bleep') do not transparently convey the idiomatic meaning, so a B1 learner who only knows the literal constituents would not reliably infer the expression without prior exposure.

Etymology

Stop the bullbleep mixes bull (a short, rude word for nonsense) and bleep (the loud beep that covers a rude word on radio), creating a strong image of mopping up or silencing nonsense. So it means 'stop talking nonsense'.