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.