Usage examples (3)

• I take it, Bunter, that terrible row means you have in your inimitable way successfully fixed the doings of the thingumajig?
• I'm a press officer, but I've only been doing the job for a week, so any super-confident account of what it's like standing athwart the 21st century 24 / 7 information...
• She had been built for canvas and oil-lamps, and this new thingumajig that kept her nose snoring at eight knots when normally she was able to boil along at ten, and...