"horsefeather" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, Dandi Daley Mackall, Horsefeathers!, page 82:",
          "text": "I took the feather from him and ran my hand down the soft, wet bristles. \"You telling me this is a horsefeather\" I asked.",
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          "ref": "2010, Joel Townsley Rogers, Killing Time and Other Stories, page 256:",
          "text": "\"Oh, great holy goose grease!\" the reported gasped in a hushed whisper. \"Strike me blind with a horsefeather and let the cuckoo bird eat out my brain!",
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          "ref": "c. 2015-2016, Wilyem Clark, Umber Apostle, page 45:",
          "text": "The prince at once set to bargaining with the Agrarians, and offered them pieces of gold but they would part with the Part That Is Also a Plow on one and only one condition: that the Prince give them a horsefeather in trade so that the might fine-tune their crop of Stringed Beans. \"Goos quills simply do not suffice! their leader said.",
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        "One of the long hairs on lower legs of a draft horse, see horsefeathers."
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          "sense": "hair",
          "word": "vuohiskarva"
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        "A cocktail made of rye or blended whiskey, ginger ale, lemon juice and bitters."
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          "ref": "2010, Joel Townsley Rogers, Killing Time and Other Stories, page 256:",
          "text": "\"Oh, great holy goose grease!\" the reported gasped in a hushed whisper. \"Strike me blind with a horsefeather and let the cuckoo bird eat out my brain!",
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          "text": "The prince at once set to bargaining with the Agrarians, and offered them pieces of gold but they would part with the Part That Is Also a Plow on one and only one condition: that the Prince give them a horsefeather in trade so that the might fine-tune their crop of Stringed Beans. \"Goos quills simply do not suffice! their leader said.",
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