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.
