Skinny-hand-falaris Edit Meaning

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Spawned by comedy of the early 1950s, a skinny-hand-falaris is double talk for any object which one clearly does not wish to define in any possible manner.

ie: Where is that skinny-hand-falaris? It is over there, hanging on the rosensaw.

See watchamacallit, thingamajig, whatsit, je ne sais quoi