Sentence examples for a Yiddish expression from inspiring English sources

He used a Yiddish expression meaning homeyness.

But they eventually reached a consensus, which Mrs. Dominus summed up in a Yiddish expression that translates as, "You make yourself not know".

"The best investments require a great deal of zitsfleysh," Mr. Nash told The New York Times in 1988, using a Yiddish expression for patience.

"You might switch to Spanish or throw in a Yiddish expression to indicate, 'We share a cultural background.' " Professor Gumperz' first wife, the former Ellen McDonald, died in 1972.

After months of carefully projecting an aura of invincibility, Netanyahu had suddenly launched what was being dubbed the "gevalt campaign" (after a Yiddish expression of alarm), warning that Israel was at imminent risk of being taken over by "a left-wing government supported by the Arabs" that would "create a second Hamastan in Judea and Samaria" (the right's preferred name for the West Bank).

"Kineahora," she added, a Yiddish expression meant to ward off the evil eye.

No! No! No! It's much more worthwhile to live!" There's a Hebraic Yiddish expression: kadai.

His organization's mission is encoded in the name T.O.T., an acronym for the Yiddish expression "Tuchis afn tish".

She spins a lovely essay on the Yiddish expression trepsverter, "literally 'step words,' meaning the perfect retort that you don't think of until you're walking away and down the stairs".

Mrs. Argand often used the Yiddish expression.

"It's like that Yiddish expression," he says.