tommyrot

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How much we scorn the little crumbs that are thrown our way, such as the $300 mustering-out pay and all such meaningless tommyrot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest 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

Each member of the committee is pledged to expose in the press by means of scathing articles, and thus hound out of public life any man, whatever his position, who is caught talking tommyrot.

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.