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tommy-rot
n. (alternative form of tommyrot English)
Usage examples of "tommy-rot".
Bell, “it’s aal tommy-rot since ye didn’t have any knights in armour back when the Priory was built.
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.
Forcing myself not to panic at the delay, I stilled his questions with the same recital of tommy-rot that I'd served up to Irma and the ensign--well, I say I stilled them, but he babbled on, demanding details and explanations, and eventually I only shut him up by taking a strong line, insisting on the need for haste on my part--I had to get back to the scene of the action at once, I told him.