English Explanatory Dictionary

if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. When one doesn't have all the facts or have a brilliant explanation, one can often convince people or win an argument by using nonsense.

Word forms

if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, blind them with bullshit

Etymology

Misattributed to W.C. Fields. Original source unknown.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on I Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary