Meanings
- euphemisticpluralplural onlyEuphemistic form of bullshit (“false statements”).
If dates, places, and times don’t quite match what you as the reader feel are correct, you have the writer’s permission to take a pencil, scratch through that offensive piece of bull feathers, and add whatever butters your biscuits.
2016, J. Lee Butts, “Preface”, in Texas Bad Girls: Hussies, Harlots, and Horse Thieves, Guilford, Conn.: Lone Star Books, →ISBN, page xi2 more examples
They would rather stand in the weeds and attack the Republicans with the lie, “Republicans are cutting Medicare to pay for tax cuts for the rich.” As you all know from everything you have heard today, that’s bull feathers. Bull feathers.
1995, Haley Barbour, “Haley Barbour”, in Preparing Our Country for the 21st Century: The Official Transcript of the United We Stand America Conference, New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial, →ISBN, “Political Party Leaders: Republicans” section, page 284“We heard that you killed some of his trees and did something to his dog,” Roxie ventured, while I held my breath. / That made Delbert angry and he grabbed his cane and waved it about. “THAT’S BULL FEATHERS, THAT’S WHAT THAT IS! THE WIND BLEW SOMETHING FROM MY PLACE ONTO HIS, AND HE SWORE THAT I DUMPED MY TRASH ON HIM.”
2004, Marlis Day, chapter 14, in The Curriculum Murders (A Margo Brown Mystery; 3), Pittsburgh, Pa.: SterlingHouse Publisher, →ISBN, page 129
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