Dull, tasteless stuff, mathematics-quite likely to give the game away before it was played out.

While a few producers make something to be proud of, most Italian merlot is poor stuff: thin, flabby, tasteless.

"So," he said, around a mouthful of the tough, tasteless stuff, "It looks like tomorrow isn't going to be a good day to try a crossing."

In fact it had been poor stuff, flat and tasteless, made from a gritty meal paste spread on hot rocks.

Orn did not miss it; grass was tough and tasteless stuff and its seeds were too small for his appetite.

£5 wine is pretty thin and tasteless stuff.

Then there are the codling; wonderful eating and nothing like that tasteless stuff you buy with a crispy brown skin.

It was pretty tasteless stuff but I was not complaining.

But it was tasteless stuff and did not satisfy.

Suddenly I could hardly swallow the strange tasteless stuff in my mouth.