horsefeathers
Interjection
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Interjection
- (euphemistic) Indicates disbelief.
- Horsefeathers! You knew it was a bad idea and now you're just making excuses about it.
- fiddlesticks, get out of town, pull the other one; see also Thesaurus:bullshit
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; indicates disbelief.
- Dismissing the rumors as "horsefeathers", he advised everybody to disregard them.
- 2015 Tony Sachs, "The Delicious Secret Behind Your Favorite Whiskey: The Best Spirits from MGP" ↗, Serious Eats
- The most notorious of these was Templeton Rye: Said to be from Iowa, it was purportedly distilled using a Prohibition-era recipe that was a favorite of none other than Al Capone who, according to legend, called it "the good stuff." The story turned out to be such a load of horsefeathers that Templeton was found guilty of deceptive marketing, and forced by a judge to issue partial refunds to its customers.
- Long hair on lower legs of a draft horse (e.g., Clydesdale), especially the rear legs.
- Feathering strips.
- 1940 New York lumber trade journal - Vol.108-9, p.26:
- The exterior of the court is entirely of sheathing and wood shingles applied over "horsefeathers."
- 1968 United States Customs Court, First Division, A. N. DERINGER, INC. v. UNITED STATES ↗ 287 F.Supp. 1016 (1968) August 8, 1968:
- In summary, the record establishes that to produce horsefeathers one starts by sawing a log (longitudinally) into boards or planks, which are then likewise center resawn (longitudinally); that the original boards, as well as the center resawn boards, have at least two approximately parallel longitudinal sawed surfaces; that the resawn boards are simply resawn again longitudinally at an angle or bevel to produce horsefeathers; and that the only other sawing required is the crosscutting of the boards to length.
- 1978 Joseph R. Provey "How to reroof your house like a pro ↗" Popular Mechanics, April 1978, p.160:
- Feathering strips, called horsefeathers, can be used to level cedar-shingle roof before reroofing with asphalt shingles
- 2005 Daniel Benn Atcheson, Roofing Construction and Estimating ↗ Craftsman Book Company, p.192:
- To install shakes or shingles over beveled siding, fill in the low points of the existing wall with lumber or plywood strips (called horse feathers).
- 1940 New York lumber trade journal - Vol.108-9, p.26:
- See also Thesaurus:nonsense
- (horse hair) spats
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