more like
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Phrase
- (chiefly UK) Used to challenge another's use of a term, replacing it with something the speaker or writer considers more pertinent.
- 2002, Mark Morris, The Lonely Places:
- "Load of old rubbish, more like. Just a daft story from a time when folk didn't know any better."
- 2005, Stephen Fry, The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within:
- Syllabics? Silly bollocks, more like.
- 2005, Mark Worrall, Over Land and Sea:
- "Gloriously unpredictable?" Fucking rubbish, more like.
- 2007, Dave Cox, Gone for a Burton:
- Nothing to do with his physical prowess. Bullshit and crap more like — very funny though.
- Used to introduce a pun or joke about some name.
- 1992, J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, Sauron Defeated, →ISBN, page 254:
- 'Notion Club! More like the Commotion Club! Is there any news of the Commoters?'
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