WordNet
Usage examples of "ragtag and bobtail".
You keep on worrying her like this until you get her into the graveyard too, then you can fill the whole house full of ragtag and bobtail.
Trading for forty-rod whisky, to enable you to get drunk and happy and tomahawk your families, has played the ever-lasting mischief with the picturesque pomp of your dress, and here you are, in the broad light of the nineteenth century, gotten up like the ragtag and bobtail of the purlieus of New York.
The Videssians scattered over the rest of the island were ragtag and bobtail.
The mages had promised they would do dreadful things to the ragtag and bobtail of gallowsbait from the southern cities and runaway serfs who filled out the ranks of false King Avram's army.
The Romans and the Videssian and Khatrisher ragtag and bobtail clinging to their skirts had been driven well up into the hills.
In fact, the lead units appeared to be Northern League cavalry, but just what the rest of the ragtag and bobtail might be was another question.