pish posh

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From pish.

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pish posh

  1. Nonsense; tommyrot.
    • 2004, Greg Johnson, The Loony Bin Blues: The Next Generation Flies Over the Cuckoo's Nest, page 264:
      “Oh, pish posh,” Miss Beauregard didn't buy it. “Your home couldn't be that bad.”
    • 2007, Julie Failla Earhart, Home Sweet Home & Other Dangerous Places, page 48:
      “You don't believe in angels? Oh, pish-posh, Officer. How do you think we make it through the day without angels?”

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