folderol

folderol

Nonsense or foolishness. His explanation is total folderol and doesn't answer the question at all.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

falderal

and folderol (ˈfɑldɚɑl)
n. wasted effort; nonsense. I had about enough of your falderal.

folderol

verb
See falderal
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • falderal
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • pillow-biter
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • #dead
  • save someone's skin
  • (something) blows
References in periodicals archive
Craig's major point is that Hobbes is closer to Plato (and even Aristotle) than he and his students have led us to believe, and, therefore, his argument that men are naturally equal is, in important respects, misleading folderol. The effect of Craig's bold thesis would be similar to learning that the village atheist is a secret Bible thumper, except that Craig 'suspect[s] that Hobbes is not even a Deist, much less a sincere Christian."
Hobbes defanged
KN: Yet it simply is too soon to pronounce the sesquicentennial dead on arrival, as some essentially have, because it lacks national direction, a cohesive scholarly narrative, legislative largess, or widespread popular folderol like the beard-growing contests of 1961.
Historians' forum: the American Civil War's Centennial vs. the Sesquicentennial
Would you pedestrianize the noblest office in the land just to make a feckless bid for inclusivity and folderol?"
The geo-social presidency: lest we forget
I will say the one local Fox television station I occasionally check in on, WBFF in Baltimore, has a news report that seems to be straight-shooting and more serious than some of the folderol that mars most local television reporting.
In love with newspapers: Rupert Murdoch's lifelong devotion to newsprint
These comprise, on the one hand, "language objects" (the intellectual trumpery of the policemen, de Selby's tomes, scholarly folderol) and, on the other, "objects to language," the panoply of intricate inventions or gizmos that play such an important role in the police barracks (microscopic chests, water-boxes, mangles).
Butter-Spades, Footnotes, and Omnium: The Third Policeman as 'Pataphysical Fiction
The unabashed fantastical folderol! As if life could be like that, leaping into a song-and-dance spectacular at the drop of a hat, so full of romance and melodrama, of colour and glitter, the lavish, escapist, tonguein-cheek nonsense of India's tinsel town.
Gilded confection: the land that brought us Bollywood also devised a dessert that dazzles with opulence
First, questioning the sanitized, agribusiness-approved PR folderol that passes as journalism nowadays does not mean a magazine or news outlet is biased, it means that it has integrity.
Mother has integrity
"She's not meant to be one of those Classical Types, like those folderol statues over at Mr.
Chapter One from The Descent of Luck
To parody amorous hokum or court folderol, as he does
Motley to the View: The Shakespearean Performance of Folly
Lewis Carroll could have made a logical dream-joke of this, and ridiculed it, as an arithmetical bathos, but in Wordsworth's poem it is an accurate historical nightmarish foldedness (always shadowed by folderol or doggerel) of prosody into history and history into prosody.
Wordsworth's "We Are Seven" and Crabbe's The Parish Register: poetry and anti-census
(Olson drove a Ford Galaxy Station Wagon in Buffalo, the only car he considered up to his size.) Well of course Wms naturally cldnt be bothered with such folderol, for he was a local boy.
An interview with Stephen Rodefer: you were a student of Charles Olson's in the mid-1960s at SUNY, Buffalo. What was that like?
I think about those days now from time to time, and our many decades together and apart (she all folderol and fog and furs--because of her poor background, she kept items like old business-cards till they were mummified in Scotch Tape); with her French ways and Shalimar, she could bend the straightest arrow; for I know, in short, she was more myself than me.
Sketch with two cucumbers and two Adams in it
Because of academic folderol, such works often do not translate into easy reading, but this is an exception.
General Walter Krueger: Unsung Hero of the Pacific War
a fertile field for strategic folderol. For example, class counsel might
Class settlements under attack
"Many political advisers in both parties employ 'rhetoric' as a synonym for 'folderol,'" Gerson wrote.
Policy is the best honesty