And as for the limited warnings on documents and signs – we are so used to reading this bumf we fail to realise when they mean business.
Source: wiktionary
Bumf
//bʌmf//
Synonyms for "bumf" (2 found)
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Czech
1 entries- lejstra noun (useless documents)
French
1 entries- paperasse noun (useless documents)
German
1 entries- Papierkram noun (useless documents)
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In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
Source: wiktionary
I say all this as someone who wishes the right had won one or two more of its battles. It would be just grand to visit a museum without having to fend off tendentious bumf about “power structures”.
Source: wiktionary
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