tripe and onions

English

Noun

tripe and onions (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Nonsense; folly.
    Synonyms: gammon, gammon and pickles, tripe
    • 1971, Heron Carvic, Witch Miss Seeton (page 59)
      Well, sir, there he was standing up spouting a lot of tripe and onions and Miss Seeton was taking the odd note.
    • 1996, Constance Laux, Touched by Magic (page 234)
      All that nonsense about charms and protection against witches. . . . It's a lot of tripe and onions, that's what it is.
    • 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!”
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tripe,‎ onion.
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