tagrag and bobtail

American  

Or tag, rag, and bobtail

noun

1. a variant of ragtag and bobtail.

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Example Sentences

But so long as they think at Westminster that we're going to convert England with a tagrag and bobtail mob of Irish priests, we never shall make the right men.

From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton

"With all the tagrag and bobtail of a Court,—the lazy drones of pageantry, the men of painted coats and patched characters, the women painted too, but beyond the art of patching for a reputation."

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James

A deputation, half the length of the street—its whole length, if you include the tagrag and bobtail that attended behind—set off on the spur of the moment to the office of Mr. Carlyle.

From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

There was a large element of Sydney tagrag and bobtail there, and one had an uncomfortable sort of feeling that one was in a species of chain-gang.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.

He lives a strange life at Brighton, with tagrag and bobtail about him, and always open house.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry