tommyrot
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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
To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest 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
Well, Barry." said Ike, "in my mind this is actual tommyrot.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Donkeys do die, you know—that little bit of tommyrot about the absence of their dead bodies to the contrary.”
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew
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