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There's a photograph of Cameron with Boris Johnson, London's patrician mayor, and other Bullingdon members in their toffy getup, taken a year before the Cliveden trip and widely reprinted in the British press last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

After my first accounts to him he had persisted in referring to it as a tuck-shop, a sort of place where schoolboys would exchange their halfpence for toffy, sweet-cakes, and marbles.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

Here’s our pocket-knives, and some handkerchiefs, and what toffy John has left, and a few little things.

From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Hough, Emerson

His pockets were crammed full of gingerbread and Everton toffy, and we had three bottles of lemonade slung on to the pony's saddlebows.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony

There was also toffy that was sold by weight, of which Everton toffee was the chief favourite.

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert