Translations for „furphy“ in the English » German Dictionary

fur·phy [ˈfɜ:fi] N Aus sl

furphy

Gerücht nt

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English

And the biobank is a bit of a furphy.

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Of course, both he and anyone with a month's experience with debt arrangement knew this was at best furphy, at worst outright fraud.

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Despite the medical community's best efforts it's a furphy that seems will not die.

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While fees matter -- and their method of repayment even more so -- when it comes to equity, it is a bit of a furphy.

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He said blaming rising insurance costs for a lack of obstetricians was a furphy.

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So that's a bit of a furphy about the flystrike, we've had less flystrike since we stopped mulesing.

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In fact the idea that the land sector can provide low cost abatement is a bit of a furphy.

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It is a total furphy that you get a better education at a large private school.

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And there's no way of knowing whether we were fed a furphy to increase the scope of government surveillance.

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Furphy employs both pathos and bathos and the narration teases the reader with its tangents, like a shaggy dog story.

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