Sentence examples for poor schmuck from inspiring English sources

"He's the poor schmuck who carried the can for the whole débâcle.

You can see why - some poor schmuck has been waiting outside that healthcare establishment for 12 hours, just to photograph you coming out of it.

Altman was much praised for Vincent and Theo (1990), an uncharacteristically stiff film which pictured van Gogh as "a poor schmuck who had a lousy life," as he put it.

I'll go into the Athlete's Foot and say, "What do you have in sneakers?" The clerk will look me over like the poor schmuck that I am and direct me to the one pair of Rockports they carry, something in spanking white.

The proud new owner explains what a great outfit his latest acquisition is, how pleased he is with the deal, extols the "synergies" that will magically materialise once the marriage is consummated and expresses his undying admiration for the poor schmuck who is now his latest subordinate.

But Apple's afraid some poor schmuck will accidentally delete their favorite song and have a "bad user experience," despite the likelihood that the tune can be redownloaded off of LimeWire re-synced from a computer.

Off-screen, some poor schmucks waiting to be seated whine futilely to the maître d'.

Just because her company is in the black, "I am not capitalizing on these poor schmucks who couldn't figure out that spending money on company picnics was not the way to spend it," she said.

The general tenor of this tech critique goes something like this: the poor schmucks don't know the first thing about this stuff; otherwise they wouldn't be signing up for "free" services that read their email and exploit their personal data; nor would they be storing their files – unencrypted – in the cloud, or enabling location services on their smartphones.

I'm willing to bet that tweeting every 12 hours or so is way better than being one of the poor schmucks that has to feel up obese people because the government made some deal with Rapiscan.

Gordon is one of those poor schmucks.