Scarum

[19: 07] Prokofy Neva: It's not a "scarum" to ask many many MANY ethical questions about items that will invade the body and cross the blood-brain barrier. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once you get above chapter book level, it seems like almost all new fiction for kids is (or wants to be) thrilling, exciting, harum-scarum, suspenseful, non-stop, etc. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

Besides, had not her own cousin, -- though a remote and distant one to be sure, the black sheep, the harum-scarum, the ne'er-do-well, -- had not he come down out of that weird North country with a hundred thousand in yellow dust, to say nothing of a half-ownership in the hole from which it came? ❋ Unknown (2010)

They may prefer to dive into a thrilling, suspenseful harum-scarum world when they read. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

And yet, he was just turned forty was clear-eyed, calm-hearted, hearty-pulsed, man-strong; and yet, his history, until he was thirty, had been harum-scarum and erratic to the superlative. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The courts affirmed this limited and narrow understanding until the New Deal, when Congress began to regulate harum-scarum and the Supreme Court inflated the clause into a general license for anything a majority happened to favor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"It used to be more harum-scarum, but now people are a lot safer," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You ever know the kind of story where the harum scarum youngster rises to the occasion, grace under pressure, to do the right thing? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chip was harum-scarum (an expression Madam Ma often used) but he was lovable, not always punctual but someone you could rely on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

‘Croker and Lover’, Yeats had written in 1888, ‘full of the ideas of harum-scarum Irish gentility, saw everything humorised’ Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)

Holes are opening and closing in walls, water is floating hither and yon, time is wonky, people are going mad and being killed, it's all very dramatic and harum-scarum. ❋ Steve Perry (2009)

Kennedy's accomplishment in Hollywood was to bring a bottom-line management style worthy of Scrooge to what had been a harum-scarum business. ❋ Edward Kosner (2009)

The festive, empty ceremony, complete with spade-wielding politicos and Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," typified the Disney Concert Hall's harum-scarum history: high profile, lofty aspirations and a lot of scrambling behind the scenes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

‘Ow, he is just a wud harum-scarum creature, that wad never take to his studies; daft, sir, clean daft.’ ❋ Unknown (2008)

A Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, Eliphalet Dyer, who had heartily joined in the unanimous decision to make Washington the commander-in-chief, judged him to be no "harum scarum" fellow. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Before I begin my harum – scarum day — grinding away at those books and instruments and then galloping up hill and down dale, all the country round, like a highwayman — it does me so much good to come and have a steady walk with our comfortable friend, that here ❋ Unknown (2007)

Anywho, the piece goes on and is less inflammatory after that rarum scarum opening. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2007)

My little harum-scarum beauty knows not what strange histories every woman living, who has had the least independence of will, could tell her, were such to be as communicative as she is. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“I did a little election-night analysis for Fox in 1996, which at that point was a pretty harum-scarum operation, if I can say that without incurring the wrath of Roger Ailes.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

1. Did you ever see Harum Scarum? Even as [an Elvis] fan I was slightly disappointed. 2. Harum Scarum man! The war of the [sexes]! [You dig]? ❋ Liquid Sky (2008)

Dude, I heard [your girlfriend's] bush could use a good weedwhackin'. Wasn't she the girl in that really bad [Elvis] movie, "[Hairum Scarum]"? ❋ Brad Broach (2008)

boy1:yo did you see that girl who [walked] by? boy2:[yea] she got a bad [case] of HARUM SCARUM boy1:word! ❋ Dr Diss (2009)