if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull phrase1 •(slang, vulgar) When one doesn't have all the facts or have a brilliant explanation, one can often convince people or win an argument by using nonsense.I said, "What do you do, Bill?" He says "Well, if I can't dazzle them with my brilliance I baffle them with my bull," and doggone if he doesn't. — 1958
