tommy-rot

Dear Lady Astor, you think you know a lot,Standing on a platform and talking tommy-rot.

Women and War Jes 2009

Dear Lady Astor, you think you know a lot,Standing on a platform and talking tommy-rot.

Archive 2009-01-01 Jes 2009

Of all the conceited, vicious tommy-rot I ever listened to, this is the vilest.

"Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009

They agreed that all communists were criminals; that this vers libre was tommy-rot; and that while there ought to be universal disarmament, of course Great

Babbit 2004

All his life he had detested the ebullient egoism of the ‘crime passionel’, the wronged spouse, honour, vengeance, “all that tommy-rot and naked savagery.”

Swan Song 2004

'Some tommy-rot about elderly bones taking longer to knit,' he said irritably.

Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

'Some tommy-rot about elderly bones taking longer to knit,' he said irritably.

Bonecrack Francis, Dick 1971

God help him, he believed the newspapers, and my huge, overblown reputation -- he thought I was the daredevil Flash Harry of popular report, the Hero of Jallalabad, and all that tommy-rot.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

Well, thinks I, they may talk about cares of state, and uneasy lies the head and all that tommy-rot, but this is the life for old Flashy.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

Elementary Property Bills and 'Wealth and Want' and that sort of wordy tommy-rot.

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller