Cockamamie

Pace Webster's Third [XV,3], but including the word cockamamie in a Yiddish lexicon is questionable, as is the definition given. ❋ Unknown (1989)

These are the kind of cockamamie questions that lead to life deficit disorder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since Crist's labeling a while back of these efforts as "cockamamie", it appears that he has logged a full workday recently enough to understand that those cockamamie efforts are finally coming to fruition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was a mistake to suggest that the alleged Neather Plot - that is, the conspiracy to "swamp" Britain with Labour-voting imigrants - was the kind of cockamamie scheme that could only be the work of over-excited junior clever chaps at the Home Office. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Georgia goofball Tom Price is introducing some kind of cockamamie resolution to condemn him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He even chided Sen. Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, for offering a "cockamamie" plan for partitioning Iraq. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Patrick Leahy of Vermont called a "cockamamie" plan to consider building a fence or wall along the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In fact, they correlate to a kind of cockamamie manifesto delineated in his book. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The lecture was given by Dr Nicholas Christakis, a professor from Harvard who had flown over to expand on theories that he once thought of as "cockamamie". ❋ Unknown (2010)

While Rubio is talking in detail about federal spending and health care reform, Crist is boiling the issues down by describing them as "cockamamie" and "crazy."

Cuban testified that he then invented a "cockamamie" story during the 2006 NBA finals that NBA safety regulations prevented anyone from standing in arena tunnels during those games. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Illinois should be learning from the best practices of other states rather than set up some kind of cockamamie system." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Anyone there who calls a cockamamie a decalcomania is stared at. " ❋ Unknown (2008)

Think of what the government could be doing here, publicly shaming banks that might be trying to avoid the very thing that got a lot of them asking for federal dough in the first place: providing easy dough to folks who shouldn’t have gotten the dough in the first place … They can’t win, and now on some kind of cockamamie scarlet letter list, they can’t lose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I hope it doesn’t get him booted, or that he’s forced to make some kind of cockamamie apology on tonight’s show. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The modern marriage has two states, plateau and precipice, and in the winter of our recent crisis—with markets plummeting and even rich folks crying poor; with the dark reign of one tinsel president finally ending, and the promised hope of a new man about to start; yes, with hope rising like a cockamamie kite and fear more common than love—Charlie Pepper forgot his wife. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

Obama is constantly killing 3 birds with one stone and all you hear about is some cockamamie critique not based in reality. ❋ Unknown (2009)