Toss

I don't give a toss about her.

This put us at the board into a Tosse.

"We are all in a toss, in our neighborhood," said Mistress Pottle.

It will differ from the heaped measure of oysters, improperly called the peck, by about one-seventh part in excess, and from the toss of sprats by about one-third part in excess.

The introduction would still be done by the Monitor host in New York's Studio 5B, followed by the toss to the newsperson in Washington.

Then I look again at this message. What a load of toss.

'You were,' John said, with infinite love, 'talking such absolute toss.'

I always thought that the breathing thing was a load of toss, but it helped calm me big time.

And Uncle Frank is having a wank, And Auntie Floss is having a toss, With Grandad.

This girl was a wank, a toss, something to be used over and over again, even when she was a pensioner; the pictures would be around till the next millennium.

Men don't chat about having a toss. We just don't. It's not comfortable.

Toss it over here!

to toss the head

He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.

"Over the bender," said Wisp, with a laugh, tossing his thumb over his left shoulder as he spoke.

Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.

Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.

We should toss for it.

I'll toss you for it.

I don't need it any more; you can just toss it.

to toss a salad; a tossed salad.

John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell.

Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell, they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.

Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.

tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep

“We can’t stand this, you know,” the young Englishmen said to each other; and they tossed about all night more boisterously than they had tossed upon the Atlantic billows.

Senseless tossing about at night before sleep comes on is often obviated by a healthful fatigue from a pleasant occupation, provided the fatigue is not sufficient to shatter the nerves. Simple measures, such as “counting sheep,” is a gentle soporific, and may be amplified by the more scholarly, as Kant did, who would think of a word such as “Cicero,” and delve into all the ramifications the thought suggested, until his mental faculties were gradually enmeshed in the veil of sleep.

Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore

spend four or fiue yeares, in tossing all the rules of Grammer in common scholes

Their modest stole, to garish looser weed, Deck'd with love-favours their late whoredoms' meed: And where they wont sip of the simple flood, Now toss they bowls of Bacchus' boiling blood,

Why, forſooth, an you think ſo, you had beſt go to bed. For my part, I mean to toſs a Can, and remember my Sweet-Heart, afore I turn in; may-hap I may dream of her.