Meaning & use
Horsefeathers
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Used to express disbelief or to dismiss something as nonsense.
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"Horsefeathers!" he snorted when told the bridge was haunted.
That excuse is pure horsefeathers, and everyone knows it.
A note on using this word
American slang from the 1920s, playing on the absurd image of a horse having feathers, since horses obviously don't.
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