tagrag and bobtail

American  

Or tag, rag, and bobtail

noun

1. a variant of ragtag and bobtail.

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tagrag and bobtail

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 Henry Reeve

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 Compton MacKenzie

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 Mrs. Henry Wood

"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 Charles James Lever

In such statuesque, taper-holding attitude, one fancies De Launay might have left Thuriot, the red clerks of the Basoche, Curé of Saint-Stephen, and all the tagrag and bobtail of the world, to work their will.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various