Bobtails

Or, do they want us to be right wing and beat the crap out of the benefit-drawing collection of ragtag and bobtails who turned up yesterday? ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

In my constituency, even if, as a warning shot to the Cameroons, I had any inkling to be mischievous and give my vote to one of the other rag tag and bobtails lurking about, pretending that they have some claim to power, it would be pointless because it is a dyed-in-the-wool Tory constituency. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His coat was of rose-colored velvet, trimmed with shags and bobtails, with buttons of blood-red rubies and golden shags around the edges. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bush's willingness to delay the strike to enable Blair to con the rag tags and bobtails of 'socialism' into voting for the Iraq liberation was a mistake. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There were so many about on the common at this time of the evening, peeping at him here, making fun of him there, and showing their little white bobtails as soon as he moved in their direction. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1956)

From out of nowhere = had suddenly appeared a man of medium height with rosy cheeks, twinkling = blue eyes, shaggy hair and clothing that, while it was composed of the = finest silks and satins, was nevertheless a mass of shags and bobtails. ❋ Snow, Jack (1949)

For I'm of royal blood; and I'm not accustomed to go to parties with ragtags and bobtails. ❋ Arthur Scott Bailey (1913)

For him the play itself is far less the thing than a peg upon which to hang all sorts of tags and bobtails of recollection, financial, technical and just not scandalous because of the discretion of the telling. ❋ Various (1898)

Him dat giv 'de squir'ls de bushtails made de bobtails fu' de rabbits. ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

The wonderful Wizard had asked to join the party, and with him came his friend the Shaggy Man, who was shaggy but not ragged, being dressed in fine silks with satin shags and bobtails. ❋ Unknown (1887)

That's what father always says to visitors who bring bobtails and chokers. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"I don't mean he despises you in particular, but all bar-room bobtails." ❋ George William Curtis (1858)

Ah, yes! it was truly the well-known square jacket with the bobtails, the pockets of which stuck out at the hips, -- the jacket of blue cloth which is classic in Brittany; there, too, were the waistcoat of printed cotton, the linen shirt fastened by ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

The key elements of our supply strategies are, diversification of product sourcing, geographically disperse storage, and sufficient rolling stock, that's transports, railcars and bobtails to provide emergency support during supply curtailments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I’ve got this business I attempt to run every day: three vans, two bobtails, and a tractor trailer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"If you cannot see the difference between that frumpish gown of yours, with its little bobtails and fringes, and those pretty dresses before us, I must say you are as blind as a bat, ❋ Rosa Nouchette Carey (1874)

A bobtailed [horse] [looks] [so funny]. ❋ MyDyingDoom (2008)

"Be careful using [the urinals], [Uncle Bob] is in their giving people [Arkansas] Bobtails..." ❋ Spank Daddy 219 (2014)

Did you see that Paul [tagged] that bobtail truck with 6ft high [letters]? Now everyone is going to know FPZs are [representing]. ❋ Wookie_Legend (2011)

"My bobtail cat is [a fat] and [diabetic] [genius]." ❋ Kimmiebee25 (2017)