Meanings of mere moonshine in English

It seemed to me mere moonshine, a delightful excuse for a desert romance.

But I could see that all this enthusiasm impressed the practical Mr. Nash as mere moonshine.

To Herbert's mind they were mere moonshine-verygraceful on the part of the maker, but meaning nothing.

Peace talk, therefore, is yet mere moonshine.

That too may be mere moonshine.

It's all mere moonshine.

While the beauty of Adonais is easily appreciated, 'Epipsychidion', written in the same year, must strike many readers as mere moonshine and madness.

So much for the boasted electoral triumphs of the Anti-corn-law League-werepeat, that they are all mere moonshine, and challenge them to disprove our assertion.

The ingenious loophole discovered by House is-meremoonshine, viz., the freedom of the seas in war.

"All that story of Miss Worthington's illness is mere moonshine," confidently answered the Western lawyer.