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tommyrot

[tom-ee-rot] / ˈtɒm iˌrɒt /


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The fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He drew the line at what he defined as social tommyrot, and he drew it more and more sharply.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto




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