Brewer's: Orleans

Your explanation is like an Orleans comment—i.e. Your comment or explanation makes the matter more obscure. The Orleans College was noted for its wordy commentaries, which darkened the text by overloading it with words. (A French proverb.)

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