nonsense on stilts

Actually, whichever way you look at it, the case is nonsense on stilts.

To quote Daley back to himself, that's nonsense on stilts.

That's nonsense on stilts for a host of reasons.

The right hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense on stilts, and he knows it.

I am not sure what such a right is, tending to Bentham's regarding them as "nonsense on stilts".

Nonsense on stilts, to echo the late Jeremy Bentham.

This is simply nonsense on stilts.

Natural law was "nonsense on stilts."

THE Government's response to funding postgraduate places for professional masters is nonsense on stilts.

Banning the Lord's Prayer from cinemas is nonsense on stilts

Presaging the shift in thinking in the 19th century, Bentham famously dismissed the idea of natural rights as "nonsense on stilts".

There are two reasons why seeing MOOCS as a race to the bottom is nonsense on stilts.

On the 27th of May he delivered a remarkable speech in which he claimed that all talk of political correctness was "nonsense on stilts".

Nonsense on Stilts: Michael Albert's Parecon - A critique

This is nonsense on stilts, though it obviously sounds pleasing to generals in the power ministries, because the only war they know how to wage is with "world imperialism."

For instance, the famous utilitarian moral philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham thought that all claims about the reality of natural moral rights are "nonsense on stilts."

North Wales Police chief constable Richard Brunstrom told the conference current laws on drugs were "nonsense on stilts", claiming they were in effect "causing crime"."

As an example of "nonsense on stilts," consider the following claims from a preamble to the resolution on cloning that was passed by the European Parliament on 13 March, 1997:

On the contrary, I call it for what it is worth: in Jeremy Bentham's immortal phrase, "nonsense on stilts", and without any defendable basis in historical or constitutional principle.

Even the conservative Cato Institute has called President Bush's claim that Arctic oil would reduce gas prices or American dependency on foreign oil "not just nonsense, but nonsense on stilts."

Nonsense on stilts: In November 2011 the feds asked for ideas on the mess that is the allocation and funding of Commonwealth supported postgraduate places, generally for courses required for professional qualification.

Jeremy Bentham described the idea of natural rights as "nonsense on stilts" and Mr Justice Meagher has proved the truth of Bentham's description with more wit than Bentham showed.

What I have written is that it is "nonsense on stilts" to assert that "OPEC market power . . . can only be combated by energy independence secured by increased domestic production."

Roger Lock, head teacher of Marling School told the BBC: "It is nonsense on stilts - and what we are looking for now is some sort of consistency of approach and trying to find the answers as to why these reports weren't consistent.