Three firms challenged the legal validity of this, and argued that toffee apples were not chargeable.
If someone claimed that toffee apples should not have been included as confectionery he should have disputed it before the courts.
To go round labelling single toffee apples seems to be a waste of time.
I do not think it is to the point to talk about cooked beetroots and toffee apples.
I always feel that is rather like stealing toffee from a child.
They turned round and gave them a bit of toffee—that is to say a very, very, satisfactory settlement of the sterling balances.
Theoretically, it might be easy to convert a factory which makes shoes into, say, a factory which makes toffee.
The men, of course, spent the night in the cells, with no sanitary convenience, except old toffee tins which leaked.