fol-de-rol

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Nonsense word traditional to English ballads and madrigals
Excessive efforts expended on a something trivial; much ado about nothing

Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee and fiddley faddley foddle. All the wishes in the world are poppycock and twaddle. -- lyrics to Richard Rogers' Cinderella.

A gaudy thing of little value; a trinket