flapdoodle

• Forget the "he's dangerous" flapdoodle, which was uttered to remind the Daily Kos crowd that Obama-Biden is their ticket. —  Bench Memos
• Or: Much of this is the obligatory tears and flapdoodle [Mark Twain ` s words] of Chris Martin. —  The Student Operated Press
• Although most of this is flapdoodle, it probably does no more harm than Admiral William F. Halsey's grimace over the fact that he once "commanded an LSD--Large Steel Desk." —  The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2
• So ended what has grandiloquently been termed "an Australian engagement," which, I may add, is just the kind of flapdoodle our troopers do not want. —  Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
• Give "Tommy" a lot less music and flapdoodle, and a lot more food of good quality, and he'll think a heap more of you. —  Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front

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