the phrase bull shi**er

[zzxxee]

anyone know of its origin????

[rinkins]

zzxxee!!!!

[zzxxee]

lol at peach xx

[rinkins]

I don't know the origin but I could name a few...

[zzxxee]

i bet xxxx

[Clanad]

Most likely an Americanism of unknown origin. Here in the western U.S. in cow ranching country the phrase 'Bull Shipper' is well known (How come your example has stars?). You see, calves are shipped (usually by rail, occasionally by truck) in the early fall... (we've just completed our shipment) and the cows that didn't produce a calf are shipped to the feed lots for fattening a little later. Lastly, the bulls are culled for various reasons and 'shipped' to be replaced by younger, sturdier examples. The bulls are more difficult to move and ship and a lot of trucking companies simply don't want to handle them. Some companies specialize in handling the large, sometime dangerous animals. They are known far and wide as Bull Shippers. In fact, the most widley used company here in the intemountain west has as its motto "Ship Happens"... Hope this helps!

[Quizmonster]

Strangely enough, the earliest recorded use of the basic 8-letter word, bull$hit, was from an English writer, Wyndham Lewis, not an American. That was in 1915 and, by 1942 - in an American dictionary of slang - it had taken on a verb form meaning to bluff one's way through by talking nonsense. The ...er noun-form you ask about obviously appeared sometime thereafter, based on the variants which preceded it.

[zzxxee]

hi clanad my example has stars cos shtter is a swear word and it will not allow me to type it lol!!!!

[Clanad]

Ewww... Appears I answered wrong question yet again. Rather a nihilarian effort, no? "Merda taurorum animas conturbit", dontcha know?

By the way, "Tongue-in-cheek doesn't seem to be a very old phrase as the earliest use we can find is in the Times Literary Supplement for 1933." A bit of information that seems appropriate here...