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  • If today A'jad defected to the West and said, unequivocally, that Iran was in the final stages of creating a bomb, there would still be those in the West who would poohpooh his information, and declare Iran innocent until proven guilty.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

  • Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.

    Ulysses 2003

  • From inside information extending over a series of years Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • I know you will poohpooh this as sentimental nonsense.

    Bambi Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

  • If he's not in my office at 0800hrs my time though, he's in for a world of poohpooh.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • If he's not in my office at 0800hrs my time though, he's in for a world of poohpooh.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • You never hear anybody poohpooh-ing Swift's Gulliver's Travels just because its fiction.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

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