My own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Source: The Earl of Clincham, in The Young Visiters, The Crystal Palace, 1919; written when the author was 9 years old.
-- Daisy Ashford, (Apr 3 1881-1972), English novelist; She wrote, at nine years of age, The Young Visitors which was published with original spelling, 1919.