gorilla dust

gorilla dust
 n.— «More than 7,000 people showed up here today to witness what one business publication billed as a “clash of titans.” But the actual event amounted to little more than a cloud of what one of the combatants called “gorilla dust.”» —“Smith, Perot All Smiles At Encounter” by Warren Brown Washington Post Dec. 9, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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