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gobbledygook

go buhl dee gook

  • n  incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists

  • There's Wall Street's way, which features theories and numbers and equations and gobbledygook and, ultimately, rationalization (as in, "How were we supposed to know that people who .
  • By substituting chatty, humorous prose for the usual gobbledygook, Mason proved that he was the man the President thought.
  • The first question was about the so-called public option, and Lincoln's answer was gobbledygook: "I don't think we can afford a fully government-funded new entitlement program.
News & Articles

  • Pat Robertson Calls on Followers to 'Rise Up' Against Obamacare (Video)
    Pat Robertson told his viewers on the "700 Club" today to "rise up" against Obamacare, which Robertson described as “2600, 2700 pages of gobbledygook.” Some of that supposed “gobbledygook” that Robertson dismissed include not allowing insurance companies to use pre-existing conditions as a reason to deny health coverage, allowing children to stay on their parents' health care plan until age 25 ...
    July 10, 2013 - Opposing Views
Quotes

  • Charlie Crist in Gainesville Sun
    Anybody that deals with government, myself included, you hear people throw out these acronyms and this government gobbledygook,Crist said. "It's very difficult to understand and I've always sort of had this sense that there's an arrogance...
  • HR Haldeman in Dissident Voice
    To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook,HR Haldeman told Nixon on June 14. "But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government; you can't believe what they say; and you can't rely on their...
  • Richard Blumenthal in Hartford Courant
    State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Friday that VA officials are offering "disingenuous double talk and bureaucratic gobbledygook" in response to concerns voiced earlier this month by his office and Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz.

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