'schlep' is a correct and usable word in English
It is mainly used informally to mean carrying something arduous or annoying. For example, "I had to schlep my heavy suitcase all the way to the airport."
And Sarah Silverman, a comedian, urges her fellow Jewish-Americans to make "the great schlep" down to Florida and get their grandparents to vote for Mr Obama unless, she says, they don't want any more visits.
Beats a schlep to the coffee shop for floppy grilled cheese.
Regus reckons service stations lend themselves to meetings between groups who do not want to schlep all the way into town.
But thousands of New Yorkers may have to schlep their own rubbish to the kerb and kiss off their own girlfriends if the city's powerful doormen's union goes on strike.The union, Service Employees International's Local 32BJ, represents 28,000 doormen, porters, lift operators, handymen and other residential-building staff.
It's nice of my ex and his family to schlep down on the train each Christmas.
There we were, three hours into the schlep up to Tignes by bus from Geneva, when the phone rang.
That's over £50,000 more, despite the 58-minute schlep into town because Canterbury is a lovely city with all the facilities you could wish for.
To surpass that portrayal, believe me, is quite schlep.
Now, two comedians who have had enough of the annual schlep to Scotland have set up a rival festival, the Phoenix Fringe, in London.
With its endless nights, Met Office baiting, diverse age-range – which isn't useful for anyone apart from the organisers, really – and Top of the Pops talent, it could become a bit of a schlep.
It may be quite a schlep from the mean streets of Baltimore, where they played fellow detectives on the cult TV series The Wire, to the Venice and Cyprus of Shakespeare's tragedy, in which they play the Moor and his machiavellian ensign, Iago.
