tommy-rot

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

"Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 5

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

Archive 2009-01-01

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

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

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

Bonecrack

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

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

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

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel

Gaston is open to all kinds of tommy-rot that has a new mark on it.

Joyce of the North Woods

But there's a word in it I happened upon, first time I opened the book; and it's stuck in my memory, for it happens to be holy sense, and not tommy-rot.

A Sheaf of Corn