Brewer's: Fiddle-de-dee!

An exclamation signifying what you say is nonsense or moonshine. Fiddle-de-dee is meant to express the sound of a fiddle-string vocalised. Hence “sound signifying nothing.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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