Gubbins

So how is it that he took out all the gubbins from the plane and rebuilt it? ❋ Unknown (2006)

I don't doubt that a lot of the cyberpunk and steampunk gubbins would be just plain weird to a reader not grounded in sf, but the two books are a lot less dense in that respect, I'd say, than your average singularity story. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

I think something in the “topic notification” gubbins has had a thromby. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Instead of the usual knockabout gubbins, the whole of the circus that has made politics a 'hobby' - or worse a 'career' - should be much more concerned in the fact that only THREE people turned up. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

The PM's hamface didn't move while his brain discarded his instinctive response "I'm such a monster my crimes don't matter to me" in favour of some gubbins about working hard during the day ensuring safe delivery into the arms of Morpheus by night. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Of course I'm open as wide as I can be - you've got a metric buttload of mirrors, picks and other assorted gubbins shoved halfway down my throat. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

The last book of the New Testament, the one with all the Antichrist and Armageddon gubbins, all the Rapture and wrath of God malarky? ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Julie and Julia has all of the winning ingredients of your lady-happy chick-flick, mixed with some run-of-the-mill award baiting biographical gubbins and sprinkled with a couple of ‘it’ leads – but this recipe is overcooked. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There's a clever electronic gubbins hidden away somewhere that determines the sounds we hear. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After several chapters of religious gubbins, goodness knows how many minutes and a sweaty panic replacing my plans for panache, the priest came over and while I was in mid-sentence ushered me back to my seat. ❋ Jeff (2009)

Advanced masters of the art have even been known to seamlessly work in references to the annual policing plan objectives, police authority strategy and other such gubbins. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)

Fantastic- not only for a Documentary: the level of complexity visited on the extra features is immense, and the DVD compilers for VALKYRIE would do well to look into a similar format as well as the inevitable usual gubbins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I tend to fall halfway between the traditional “mass media” approach and the “new media” gubbins. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Arduino board, a Linksys Wi-Fi adapter and various gubbins to connect them together. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You can't have kids, and all this scene-setting gubbins really does is distract from the meat of the game, which is performing quests. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)

Our capacity to compartmentalise might well be such that a character's workings are often only understood intuitively and on a superficial level, with intricacies of the gubbins as inarticulable to us as the exact psychological details of a friend's motivations in doing X in situation Y even though we know with certainty that they would do so. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Sunday we traipsed into Ikea with the intention of maybe buying some new crockery and emerged several hours and £635 the lighter having bought two sets of crockery, diverse kitchen gubbins, new duvet set, lampshades and, oh, two sofas, as Old Faithful is sagging at both ends and basically A Damned Disgrace. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had [a lot] of gubbins in his [backpack] ❋ Mavmaramis (2003)

Neil: "Where's the 27mm impact [socket]?" [Zippy]: "It's over there on the floor, next to that pile of [welding] gubbins." ❋ Antiseptic (2012)

That [fox] got [run] over [and all] its gubbins oozed out. ❋ Dave_Abbeywood (2006)

[i saw] gubbins. ❋ Like All My Definitions! (2020)

bro i need to [shower] my gubbins is [ultra] [sweaty] ❋ Jef Jeff (2010)

'Ooooo he is a bit gubbins'graham said as he was entered by [James] 'He's going through gubbins at the moment' john said when [asked] about his [son]. ❋ Matthew Pinsent (2006)

I [threw] away my [gubbins] of my [fish]. ❋ Superi0rM4n (2019)

[nick nacks],garbage,small [toys], pictures,books,[pencils],utencils,paper,Gubbins etc...... ❋ Rebel#4 (2011)

'Hey, can you get me [guest list] for Saturday?' 'Yeah... use Gubbins at the door' ['Do] you know who is responsible for [the coffee machine] in this office?' 'Yeah... I think it's Gubbins' ❋ Spud Was Out Last Night? (2013)

"[You wouldn't] believe his [parents] own a [mansion] would you? The gubbin!" ❋ M.Russell (2004)