namby-pamby

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Exempel på namby-pamby

  • Many reduplications are of this sort - dilly-dally, harum-scarum, humdrum, mumbo-jumbo, namby-pamby.

  • That is the view of our magistrates, and no one can say that we have very namby-pamby magistrates there—we do not.

  • It is the namby-pamby people who get up this legislation for this country.

  • If we were to adopt what is proposed or started to take a namby-pamby attitude about it, we should need our heads examined.

  • But now we have a namby-pamby fear of committing ourselves to anything.

  • The magistrates are rather namby-pamby about applying a fine of £50, if that is the maximum, and apply only a fine of £10 or £20.

  • This new development is regarded by many people as being somewhat namby-pamby towards the prisoners.

  • In my view, they are too namby-pamby for words.

  • It may be that these nations are unduly namby-pamby and squeamish in their attitude to environmental issues.

  • Compared with earlier days we are like a namby-pamby church tea party.

  • He seemed to have a namby-pamby and softly, softly approach to the necessary law and order.

  • It would be wrong to think that the opponents of corporal punishment are people of a soft, namby-pamby disposition.

  • In all these matters their policies are feeble and namby-pamby.

  • This namby-pamby scheme under which a few houses are thrown at us is worth less than nothing.

  • Let us make no mistake about it; let us not be namby-pamby about it.

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