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schmuck

[shmuhk] / ʃmʌk /


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SpaceX is so big that lots of funds would have bought SpaceX at almost any price in order not to trail the benchmark and look dumb—so-called schmuck insurance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

“If you don’t want to make a difference, why are you running? Let some other schmuck do it.”

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025

“And I’ve always loved that the ultimate arbiter of any performance has been the audience and not some schmuck producer or executive producer.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

"They called me the schmuck from Hanover," he laughs.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2023

He promised me he would be there, that schmuck.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

And on the sublime Mariners Apartment Complex, she even addresses the people - critics, boyfriends, record-industry bigwigs - who "mistook my kindness for weakness", the not-exactly-hidden subtext being: "That won't happen again, schmucks."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

I didn’t know Matt and I would end up the last schmucks left in our hometown, seemingly the only people shaking our heads at the advent of a $6 cup of joe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2021

Endorsing schmucks you've never met in your life and couldn't care less about and then spreading some cash around.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2021

“And we’re the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2018

They could have been any two billionaire schmucks taking an evening stroll through Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018


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