»Next week we shall be stone-broke.» (Miss Hobbs 37. 22.)
Easy conversation between ladies and gentlemen. The speaker is a young man.
= penniless, hard up. Cf. stoney (the same sense).
Tommy rot
»The wonderful songs that nobody ever sings, the wonderful pictures that nobody ever paints, and all the rest of it. It’s Tommy rot!» (P. Kelver II. 208. 14.)
A young lady with a special liking for spirited expressions.
»I’ll make a journalist of you.»—
»Don’t talk rot.» (Tommy And Co. 36. 12.)
A London brat of the working class.
Rot is the most usual word at present for rubbish, nonsense; »rotten» is still more modern and ‘stylish’.