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

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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.

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

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Anybody can see through that sort of tommyrot, if he isn't a fool.

From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White


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