gobbledygook informal
gobbledegook BrE informal

Does all that gobbledygook mean you're not going to tell us?

Will you line up to support any of the boxes that sound like gobbledygook?

It all sounds like gobbledygook for the first ten minutes, you just have to work.

"If people say this is trying to help parents, that's gobbledygook."

In the end, the dispute will probably turn on legal gobbledygook.

"That to me is gobbledygook from start to finish," he said.

"This is just pure Washington gobbledygook," one administration official said.

The common denominator of all this gobbledygook is the mouth.

I thought it was a lot of gobbledygook, but you couldn't disagree.

"The great thing about this technology is that it will never produce a gobbledygook word.

To some ears, knowing when to use one or the other makes the difference between literature and gobbledygook.

Others read them in a tone dismissive of legal gobbledygook.

To the world outside Hollywood, the words were gobbledygook.

He'd translated all of the engineering gobbledygook into plain, clear language.

"Gobbledygook" is actually four works wound around one another.

The tax code is seven million words of gobbledygook.

"The whole tax procedure was gobbledygook to many people."

Finally, the gobbledygook man turns up again and this time Francis is there to translate.

We're all very careful to leave such gobbledygook usages out of our report.

"To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook.

"Have you ever heard such gobbledygook in your life?

Still, the dream wasn't worth going back to: his conversation with death had been gobbledygook.

It's just a piece of gobbledygook designed to settle the matter."

This meaning has also been extended to meaningless text or gobbledygook.

In fact, Americans seem to possess a tolerance and perhaps even a relish for gobbledygook.

The rest, like most computer talk, was gobbledegook to him.

That was probably just as well, since it had to be gobbledegook.

I suppose it was the gobbledegook and the mixture of live action with puppets.

Each episode contained a scene where he would try to confuse people with his gobbledegook.

It had to do with some unfathomable mystical gobbledegook about true names.

This is the sort of statistical gobbledegook the drug companies use to advertise their medications.

I'll use a little of your gobbledegook language.

Steve heard someone reply with a burst of gobbledegook.

I am sure that my hon. Friend will be the first to spot gobbledegook whenever it arises.

"If he's so interested in military gobbledegook," Martha asked, "why not enlist?"

Why can't you give me some decent names, instead of all this gobbledegook rubbish.

This gobbledegook does not apply- it is a government liability like funding trident.

He might have added that any sufficiently advanced expertise is indistinguishable from gobbledegook.

It talked gobbledegook which sounded as if it meant something but was actually nonsense.

Perhaps the language used was confusing, riddled with jargon or simply meaningless gobbledegook.

That was the official line but Bernice's handwritten note gave the translation of the bureaucratic gobbledegook.

Insist on plain English explanations and remember that gobbledegook may conceal some nasty surprises.

Congratulations on finding the gobbledegook boson,keep on talking amongst yourself.

Cadillac checked their immediate surroundings, then uttered a fluent stream of gobbledegook.

It'll do the check in a few minutes and give us the answer in English, not in this hexadecimal gobbledegook.

So the expression 21.4m sq ft is gobbledegook, whether numerically correct or not.

The way you access an old-style computer: type a bunch of arcane gobbledegook, and then you press Enter.

All that the croakers will give out with is gobbledegook, soothing syrup, and pure pap."

"Gobbledegook," he said after a glance.

More gobbledegook than a carnival conjuror.