cockamamie

“Pace Webster's Third [XV,3], but including the word cockamamie in a Yiddish lexicon is questionable, as is the definition given.”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4

“These are the kind of cockamamie questions that lead to life deficit disorder.”

The Huffington Post: Joe Robinson: The Invisible Epidemic of Life Deficit Disorder

“Since Crist's labeling a while back of these efforts as "cockamamie", it appears that he has logged a full workday recently enough to understand that those cockamamie efforts are finally coming to fruition.”

Florida Republican Party Rotting From Top Down

“It was a mistake to suggest that the alleged Neather Plot - that is, the conspiracy to "swamp" Britain with Labour-voting imigrants - was the kind of cockamamie scheme that could only be the work of over-excited junior clever chaps at the Home Office.”

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...

“Georgia goofball Tom Price is introducing some kind of cockamamie resolution to condemn him.”

Howie Klein: Alan Grayson's Candor and Honesty Irks GOP Obstructionists... Again

“He even chided Sen. Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, for offering a "cockamamie" plan for partitioning Iraq.”

The Wall Street Journal: McCain Gambles

“Patrick Leahy of Vermont called a "cockamamie" plan to consider building a fence or wall along the U.S.”

paranoia

“In fact, they correlate to a kind of cockamamie manifesto delineated in his book.”

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“The lecture was given by Dr Nicholas Christakis, a professor from Harvard who had flown over to expand on theories that he once thought of as "cockamamie".”

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