cockamamy

Donald R. Morris The Houston Post In "The Joys and Oys of Yiddish" [XV,3], Messrs. Lederer and Schenkerman put the word cockamamy

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4 1989

FITZWATER: Well, the "cockamamy" part of the idea that a President is going to be so intimidated by the press or wilt under the pressure and walk out of the Presidency, or something like that.

Call the Briefing! Bush & Reagan, Sam & Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press 1995

"Come on now, Peter, please don't try to flatter me with some kind of cockamamy line about love at first sight," she said, giving him a look that told him she wouldn't begin to believe it if he tried.

From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

I went along with this cockamamy plan to blame India because you told me to look at the bigger picture.

A Good Man is Hard to Find ReShonda Tate Billingsley 2010

I went along with this cockamamy plan to blame India because you told me to look at the bigger picture.

A Good Man is Hard to Find ReShonda Tate Billingsley 2010

So now he looked somehow less of a man because he refused to fight her cockamamy wars.

Broken Symmetry Angela Brett 2010

Plz oh plz oh plz show me the poll that backs up this cockamamy assertion.

Poll: Obama Slips Against McCain, Now Losing Among Independents 2009

He lay with his legs on his king-sized bed and his body folded forward off the edge, toward the floor, in what looked suspiciously like a cockamamy approximation of a Downward-Facing Dog.

The Ex Games JENNIFER ECHOLS 2009

He lay with his legs on his king-sized bed and his body folded forward off the edge, toward the floor, in what looked suspiciously like a cockamamy approximation of a Downward-Facing Dog.

The Ex Games JENNIFER ECHOLS 2009

For example, Obama extend invitations to the GOP which then goes and shoots itself in the collective foot with cockamamy rejections.

George Spyros: Obama's Modus Operandi: NYT Coverage of Coen Brothers Clean Coal Ad 2009