I recently encountered the Japanese phrase 出鱈目/デタラメ/detarame to mean... well,
what we in English generally refer to as bull****. Which, the implications in
the word from what it means is pretty straightforward.

I'm interested in what the literal translation would amount to. As far as I
can tell from looking up the individual characters, it has something to do
with (bulging?) cod eyes (codswallop?), but I'm not sure why they'd be equated
to-- let's call it bullcrap.

This is about etymology more than use! I'm interested in what it means in
Japanese, rather than what it's equivalent to.
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Detarame / 出鱈目 literal translation?