flapdoodle

But instead we are getting the flapdoodle campaign, in which more and more ado is made about less and less.

You're the last man I ever expected to hear that kind of flapdoodle from.

Ye know that boy, gentlemen; ye know how he uster lie round his father's store, reading flapdoodle stories and sich!

Ye remember how he sashayed round newspaper offices in 'Frisco until he could write a flapdoodle story himself?