| For the benefit of the sportsman and gun crank who want plain facts and no flapdoodle, the following statistics are offered. |
| I'm sure that I've gotten away with my share of sententious flapdoodle because my granddaughters are just too kind to call me on it. |
| But instead we are getting the flapdoodle campaign, in which more and more ado is made about less and less. |
| The latest piece of flapdoodle concerns Downing Street's plans to dock child benefit from the parents of tearaway children. |
| Ye remember how he sashayed round newspaper offices in 'Frisco until he could write a flapdoodle story himself? |
| It is not worth falling into dispute over such a flapdoodle of a vestimentary matter. |
