gammon and pickles
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gammon and pickles (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Nonsense; folly.
- Synonyms: gammon, tripe, tripe and onions
- 1996, Janice Bennett, Karen Ranney, Doreen Owens Malek, Angel Love, page 214:
- “It's gammon and pickles. That's what it is. Angels and wishes and answers to prayers! Really, Miss Gordon, it's tripe and onions!”
- 2000, Constance Laux, Diamonds and Desire, page 299:
- "Gammon and pickles," she mumbled. She tried to shrug off the effects of her own overactive imagination and failed miserably.
- 2016, Roger Higgins, Billy Gogan, American:
- “The cove was blethering all gammon and pickles about yer Da'. You never said much about him to me,” Cian hiccupped accusingly.