Baloney is a word often used by politicians to describe the ideas of their opponents.
The expression has been used for years. Fifty years ago, a former governor of New York state, Alfred Smith, criticized some claims by President Franklin Roosevelt about the successes of the Roosevelt administration.
Smith said, "No matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney."
A similar word has almost the same meaning as baloney. It even sounds almost the same.
The word is blarney . It began in Ireland about sixteen hundred.
The lord of Blarney castle, near Cork, agreed to surrender the castle to British troops.
But he kept making excuses for postponing the surrender. And, he made them sound like very good excuses, "this is just more of the same blarney."
