Blowing smoke up your ass is a personal favorite, but I’d appreciate any other ones like this that you may have heard or enjoy using. I should also pre-empt any Judge Judy devotees by saying yes, I have heard her wonderful don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining. A great phrase. Thoughts on Judge Judy aside…
Do any others exist? I haven’t had a lot of luck with online slang dictionaries so far.
It doesn’t have the connotations of deliberately misleading people, but it’s a form of BSing nonetheless: talking through one’s hat. I like it because it’s more genteel that “talking out one’s ass,” and IMHO a funnier image, besides.
or John Leguizamo’s sign language for bullshit. Hold your arms in front of you, with one forearm stacked on top of the other. The arm on top should have the index and pinky finger pointed up like you are at a heavy metal concert or an Aggie football game. The lower arm should have the a fist opening and closing.
On review this is too farkin complicated to explain
Thanks *very *much, folks- there are more than a few here that may do the trick (this is for something I’m writing). (Though keep 'em coming, by all means!)
archmichael, I was following your “sign language” instructions here in my cubicle, and when I looked down and realized what I was signing, I just lost it.
I use “bollocks” quite often, and from this, my ex (who couldn’t pronounce it correctly anyway, and would say “bull-ucks” instead of BOLL-OCKS) mangled it and came up with the very cute: