What's the difference between jewellery and tomfoolery?

Jewellery


Definition:

  • (n.) See Jewelry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
  • (2) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
  • (3) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
  • (4) In 43 the primary eczema was on the hands, in 38 under costume jewellery, suspenders, ect.
  • (5) Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity would not exist without water.
  • (6) Anas, a nurse, had wanted her children to stay but she relented and sold her gold jewellery when her son Salim found a way to get to Brazil, where he now has asylum after failing to reach the US.
  • (7) There was a shop that I knew of because I've been in there a couple of times before and I knew they sold costume jewellery and stuff.
  • (8) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
  • (9) He’s nine now but he has seen it.” Others using the vault feared they had lost jewellery, family heirlooms, cash and essential documents, he added.
  • (10) 1928's Downton Abbey jewellery collection If it's the jewels and the glitz that gets you going on Downton, then you'll be pleased to know that you can emulate the luxury of Lady Edith from as little as £11.25 (via ACHICA) – though what Lady Mary would make of such cheap imitations doesn't bear thinking of.
  • (11) My suspicion is there was something [the thieves] were specifically after, otherwise why would they have taken some and left others?” The stolen goods would range from family heirlooms, personal jewellery and dealers’ stock, he said.
  • (12) This may be a gift of cosmetics, jewellery or clothing, or may be food related.
  • (13) However, in an interview with the Guardian the families questioned the claims made by the police that the girls had funded the trip with stolen family jewellery.
  • (14) China is poised to overtake India to become the world's biggest market for gold this year thanks to soaring investment purchases of bullion and steadily rising jewellery sales, according to the World Gold Council's annual report.
  • (15) In recent months many companies have sprung up offering to buy gold jewellery and other items in exchange for cash.
  • (16) I know for a fact that some of my work colleagues have got boxes down there and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds in goods.” Malka said the safe-deposit boxes were used to store both jewellery and loose diamonds in packets.
  • (17) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
  • (18) The tie-up with Argos is more surprising as the camping to jewellery retailer’s range of products overlaps more closely with Sainsbury’s range of non-food goods.
  • (19) The elements you use in jewellery come from the earth,” explains Leane, “metal, gemstones.
  • (20) American viewers mourning the death of Dan Stevens' character Matthew Crawley at the end of the show's Christmas special will be able to drown their sorrows with Downton wine, wear Downton jewellery and grow Downton roses, as part of a merchandising push aimed at capitalising on the drama's phenomenal global success.

Tomfoolery


Definition:

  • (n.) Folly; trifling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The equaliser came from United’s first chance of any note and it followed a bit of tomfoolery from the West Ham fans behind De Gea’s goal.
  • (2) Anderson has long been an admirer of Robert Altman, another herbalist of renown, and Inherent Vice’s reeling tomfoolery is a bit reminiscent of MASH (from where The Last Supper pastiche is also pinched , if you can pinch a pastiche).
  • (3) But a week later, on Friday 15 May, the bug in Perkins’s car caught his passenger, Jones, bragging: “The biggest cash robbery in history at the time and now the biggest tom [short for tomfoolery, slang for jewellery] in the fucking world, that’s what they are saying … And what a book you could write, fucking hell.” That day Perkins also said stolen Indian gold could be his pension: “I’m going to melt my good gold down.” Later, Asian necklaces, bangles and pendants were recovered.
  • (4) 10.07pm BST 48 min: Brazil pile forward in search of ... something, apparently oblivious to the fact that it's that sort of tomfoolery that got them into this horrible mess in the first place.
  • (5) Even when she is enjoying a wee bit of carnal tomfoolery, it is all sophisticated.
  • (6) On one Little Britain web forum, cited last year by the columnist Johann Hari, the link between prime-time tomfoolery and social attitudes became crystal clear: "Down here in Bristol," wrote one subscriber, "we have an area called Southmead, which is absolutely packed with Vickys wearing fluorescent tracksuits.
  • (7) A bit of harmless tomfoolery that verges on the moving.
  • (8) As well as using Twitter to encourage online activity, she answered absurd questions on Reddit, spearheaded an eight-hour reading of the 1961 science-fiction novel Solaris , organised a flashmob in Oslo, collaborated with Lady Gaga on a video recreating the famous Abramovic Method in the nude, and practised some light-hearted tomfoolery as she described with deliberate deadpan just how many hours it takes a performance artist to change a light bulb .
  • (9) James and the Heat quickly put an end to the tomfoolery with a blowout Game 2 win , and proceeded to win the next three games to advance to the Eastern Conference finals, to face the Indiana Pacers.
  • (10) I see your argument about horses, the World Spirit, and about tomfoolery and disrespect, as well as why and how all these elements are so connected to each other.
  • (11) 3.09pm GMT 84 min: Gascoigne nails a glorious 60-yard crossfield pass to Lineker, who is just about to put the ball back in the box when Platt is penalized for some off-the-ball tomfoolery 3.09pm GMT 83 min: That’s Lineker’s tenth World Cup goal: four this year and six in 1986.
  • (12) Tunnel tomfoolery: The teams walk out of the Old Trafford tunnel holding their little mini-me mascots by the hand.
  • (13) Judged in terms of emotional voltage and sheer nail-biting fascination, Foster's monologue (not so much a public declaration that she is gay as a celebration of privacy in general) risked casting Argo's high-wire antics as so much excitable tomfoolery.
  • (14) Somehow, this bit of tomfoolery – so old that one imagines even the Harlem Globetrotters have phased it out – has caused enough controversy to provoke the ire of the NBA.

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