Sentence examples for a schnook from inspiring English sources

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The guy's a schnook?

"Bloch was such a schnook," the letter says.

Get to live the rest of my life like a schnook".

The Fed chairman was just as big a schnook as every other magical thinker in Washington and on Wall Street who believed that housing prices would go up in perpetuity to support an economy leveraged past the hilt.

"What, in my opinion, is wrong with this story is that... despite the greatness of Pete as a stellar athlete hero... the negative image of him flubbing and unable to catch any ball at all will make him a schnook," Geisel writes.

The afternoon following the premiere, Robbins wrote that whereas the previous day he had been "a schnook from Weehawken" to whom no one would give the time of day, that morning he had been called by 12 producers to choreograph their shows.

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It's the story of a rural schnook (Fernandel), an errand boy and movie nut who dreams of cinematic greatness and thinks he's got the stuff it's made of.

Viewed against the backdrop of this tale's drab, modern-day urban setting, a good fairy's intercession in a poor schnook's life makes for an absurd rather than a classically happy ending.

Like my vision of M., a hapless schnook whom I could recall in an effort to boost my ego.

Like Liotta in that final memorable scene, Macfarlane broke the fourth wall this week to tell journalists he'd briefly contemplated spending the rest of his life as a suburban schnook before dismissing that idea as impossible and seeking a fast track back into the Turnbull ministry.

"Here I am, a poor schnook, moving into this wealthy area.

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