The phrase "a baloney" is not correct in standard written English.
The term "baloney" is typically used as an uncountable noun, so it should not be preceded by "a."
Example: "What you just said is pure baloney."
Alternatives: "nonsense" or "rubbish."
"It was such a baloney case," he said.
And when times were tough, he'd kill a man for a baloney sandwich.
"How much do you expect to get paid for making a baloney sandwich or cutting a pickle in half?" Mr. Smith said.
Or, to push the idiom a little further, it's a little too sweet, with some pleasantly nutty notes and a baloney finish".
But what also helped was my being raised in New York, which gives you a great... this is The New York Times, so let's call it a baloney detector.
They would have to work hand in hand with state agencies in these efforts, but it sure beats trying to bribe me with what amounts to a baloney sandwich.
Mate a crocodile and an abalone, the old joke goes, and you'll get a crock-a-baloney.
For people awaiting arraignment, the police will provide a bag lunch that consists of a baloney-ilk sandwich and a piece of fruit.
He reads aloud what the narrator has been writing: "You, me, a secret concealed like a baloney-and-cheese sandwich smuggled in a secretary's purse... I'm famished like that...and lunch turns out to be a kiss, a speck of mustard on your lips".
One of four children in a lively, comfortably affluent suburban New York family, he is stuffed from the start by his Italian grandmother, then by his mother, a WASP from more of a baloney-sandwich background who nonetheless adopts her mother-in-law's mania for enormous, red-sauce meals.
"Fifty per cent of what we say in a campaign is baloney," a political consultant told him.
