"He argues with every Tom, Dick and Harry," Mr. Djursing said.
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Now, "not every Tom, Dick and Harry can stand up and say they will go for jihad," Mr. Gilani added.
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It is irresponsible to continue to take the speculation of every Tom, Dick and Harry, and report it as if it is fact.
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Because he takes every negative comment as a personal slight, he feels the need to respond to every Tom, Dick and Harry who critiques him.
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But prison also acts as a filter; you don't hear about every Tom, Dick, and Harry when you're inside, so what makes it through matters.
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My fear, though, is that every Tom, Dick, and Harry on a group ride, here or anywhere around the world, is going to be trying the supertuck.
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The wave of conversational interfaces is one of those rising tides that every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to surf without even assessing the needs of their target market.
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If I wanted to be "Mister Popular" I never would have chosen a career as a crusading journalist, so why should I worry about what brand of telephone every Tom, Dick, and Harry has in his pants pocket?
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She runs from pillar to post, scolds those who disagree with her, wastes people's time, describes the intrigues being used to intimidate her, comes up with vast sums she is being cheated of by the pressure of the antagonists, asks every Tom, Dick, and Harry: 'Should I do it, should I not, at this price, at that price, on this condition, on that condition?
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The phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry" is a placeholder for unspecified people. The phrase most commonly occurs as "every Tom, Dick, and Harry", meaning everyone, and "any Tom, Dick, or Harry", meaning anyone, although Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable defines the term to specify "a set of nobodies; persons of no note". Similar expressions exist in other languages of the world, using commonly used first or last names. The phrase is used in numerous works of fiction.
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