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tommyrot

[tom-ee-rot] / ˈtɒm iˌrɒt /


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"The big rumors about meeting here to discuss stopping the bombing or to pull out," he said, "are just pure, absolute tommyrot and fiction."

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Many a playgoer will find How Beautiful With Shoes a hodgepodge of demented tommyrot.

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Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot.

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It was tommyrot, cried he to the press, for critics to complain because the plan did not aim at economy as well as efficiency.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Oregon came an impetuous, slangily-worded exhortation to Lydia not to make a fool of herself and miss the best of life to live up to the tommyrot standard of old dry-as-dust Endbury.

From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo




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