Throttlebottom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Throttlebottom
After Alexander Throttlebottom, character in Of Thee I Sing (1932), musical comedy by George S. Kaufman ( def. ) and Morrie Ryskind (1895–1985), American dramatist, lyricist, and writer
Example Sentences
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As Vice President Throttlebottom tells the Senators: "Gentlemen, this country has never yet impeached an expectant father."
From Time Magazine Archive
Quayle, who often seemed as lost as an actor missing half the pages of his script, struggled to overcome his own Throttlebottom image -- and lost.
From Time Magazine Archive
An amateur psychologist, she recognizes the primitive satisfaction it gave her to know that her adored father was released from the "comic obscurity" lately immortalized in Vice President Throttlebottom.
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Apprehensive Britons, reading that he felt as if a bull had fallen on him, might mistakenly take him for a Throttlebottom.
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Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13.
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