We Americans are taught to stand on our own two feet, pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, be rugged individualists, and all that other Ayn Rand tommyrot. |
I realize perfectly that all this sounds like tommyrot, and that superstition may be a relic of barbarism and ignorance. |
And all the tommyrot one hears at home about another mutiny brewing! |
I havent time to explain my reasons for cutting that tommyrot out, retorted Piper. |
Any attempt by the Tories to suggest repeal of the Act ratifying the Constitution will be shouted down as xenophobic or isolationist or some other such tommyrot. |
The world, through television, through radio, through picture shows, and those outlets there, has corrupted this nation with the tommyrot of Hollywood. |