If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance then baffle them with your bullshit

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"If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance then baffle them with your bullshit" is an English dictum.

Alternative form: "if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, blind them with bullshit"

Misattributed to W.C. Fields. Original source unknown.

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When you don't have all the facts or have a brilliant explanation, you can often convince people or win an argument by using bullshit.

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