Given all this uncertainty, Carter writes, executives often take out "schmuck insurance" — they'll ask for a piece of a show if they're lending an actress or releasing a writer, just in case the project becomes a success.
The poor schmuck is out driving around with his wife, and blam!
Diddy" Combs got a little funky with the lawyers, using Johnnie Cochran for his defense and leaving Shyne to deal with some schmuck from out of the Yellow Pages.
These poor schmucks—or lucky schmucks, perhaps?—were wheeled out with strict orders to constantly remain 20 steps ahead of us and look like they were having A+ fun in the otherwise deserted park, lest anyone get suspicious that we weren't in Disneyland after all.
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.
Because numbering things in the order they came out is for schmucks!
Furthermore, Wüste and Schmuck [7] point out that in many cases, municipal mayors are heavily engaged in the transition process.
Laura Hodes, meanwhile, writing on the Jewish Daily Forward website, points out that Dinner for Schmucks is just the latest in a crop of recent films and novels to idealise the schlemiel (rather than the schmuck).
That's all it is: You give your dollar, and in return, you find out how many other schmucks also forked over a buck.
If enough people spoke these words of solidarity and affirmation, we could surely drown out the rantings of one schmuck.
