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tommyrot

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tom·my·rot  (tm-rt)
n. Informal
Utter foolishness; nonsense.
[Dialectal tommy, fool (from Tommy, nickname for Thomas) + rot.]
tommyrot [ˈtɒmɪˌrɒt]
n
utter nonsense; tomfoolery
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Noun1.tommyrot - pretentious or silly talk or writingtommyrot - pretentious or silly talk or writing
baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tosh, twaddle, taradiddle, tarradiddle
hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
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tommyrot [ˈtɒmɪrɒt] N → tonterías fpl
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We landed at Salerno, a holiday with pay, The Jerries brought the band out to lead us on our way, Showed us the sights and made us tea, We all had girls and the beer was free, Dear Lady Astor, you think you know a lot, Standing on a platform and talking tommyrot, You're England's sweetheart and their pride, We think your mouth's too bloody wide, That's from your D-Day dodgers in sunny Italy.
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19 The Tommy of tommyrot is undoubtedly the tom of tomfoolery: a euphemism for damn(ed).
Classical blather: stuff and nonsense by Humez, Nick / Verbatim
More personally, he told Goldwater that the slogan reminded him of right-wing zealots who had called Eisenhower himself "a conscious agent of the communists" in the White House, which was "utter tommyrot.
The year the GOP went South by Branch, Taylor / Washington Monthly
 
 
 
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