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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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I realize perfectly that all this sounds like tommyrot, and that superstition may be a relic of barbarism and ignorance.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby




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