Word: tommyrot
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...Lots of museums buy pictures they don't really like. People can stand at an exhibition like this and argue all night on whether museum people are dodoes and filling their places with tommyrot . . . But museums don't buy pictures to live with. They buy pictures in the same way a zoo buys an elephant or a lion. They buy them for people to see. Who would want to live with an elephant...
...fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot. In a recent study of heavyweights, it was found that fewer than one in 200 had a glandular ailment...
Final Instructions. Just before he left, he made a short speech to all the officers of the division. It was such a speech, as the one in which he was quoted as saying: "This stuff about tremendous losses [in the invasion] is tommyrot." But that comment was no gush of rash optimism; in context it was a simple statement of Bradley's faith in the fighting qualities of U.S. infantrymen...
...This stuff about tremendous losses is tommyrot.... When the time comes you will be surprised by the naval gunfire and air power we have. Some of you won't come back, but it will be very few. In the Tunisian campaign we lost only an average of three or four men to 1,000, and certainly seeing a show like this ought to be worth that chance...
...This Robinson Crusoe business is a lot of tommyrot," he said. "You can't live on a desert island by just plucking fruit off the trees; you've got to work like hell. You can't move anywhere without hacking your way through the bushes. To make a house, you've got to cut the wood, saw it, and plane it. One man has spent well over a year on a hut, and it is barely half finished...