tommyrot

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When it worked round to my turn to deal again I gave out the cards very slowly and made another attempt to find out whether Dodds did or did not agree with Lalage about tommyrot.

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.