| Granma went home and told her husband what the clairvoyant had said, but he pooh-poohed the idea, and so no action was taken. |
| But her father, who called himself agnostic, had quietly pooh-poohed his wife's solicitousness regarding the little virtues. |
| He pooh-poohed the idea of running to the store to get pre-party and post-party supplies. |
| The phenomenon, however, whether credited or pooh-poohed, was a drawing card. |
| The golden jubilee had been looked forward to with relish by royalists and pooh-poohed by metropolitan media pundits. |
| When that whole emphasis on arts was brought in five years ago, everyone pooh-poohed it as being, you know, arty-farty nonsense. |
