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Anyhow, Ratto suggested that "a bunch of league officials and other low-level buttinskys" will pressure NL manager Charlie Manuel to select Strasburg, and that "even if Manuel thinks this is a bad idea, he'll be overruled by some marketing yutz who has a master plan for moving" Natstown "shmata."
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Data shmata; for starters, I never said that police train more often than once a year.
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May I kiss the hem of your shmata, Dr Freud and yes, that is a borrowed line.
Temptation Douglas Kennedy 2006
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May I kiss the hem of your shmata, Dr Freud and yes, that is a borrowed line.
Temptation Douglas Kennedy 2006
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In fact, I'd argue w/that shmata [rag] over your face, you'd actually ATTRACT a good deal of public attention, which is kind of like a privacy-reducer device.
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His initial capitalization was limited, as he noted in his book: "I started Seven Stairs, as my father would have said, out of (cotton) and shmata."
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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His initial capitalization was limited, as he noted in his book: "I started Seven Stairs, as my father would have said, out of (cotton) and shmata."
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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As white women who walk alone are culturally perceived as prostitutes (even if their wearing a pseudo-nun-Muslim-shmata-tubey thing to cover their hair), I guess it makes them feel entitled ...
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As white women who walk alone are culturally perceived as prostitutes (even if their wearing a pseudo-nun-Muslim-shmata-tubey thing to cover their hair), I guess it makes them feel entitled ...
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I'm going via train so I'm fully busting out my dark black sunglasses and fully pulling down my shmata tube "Buff" thing from REI that works like a charm to cover my hair.
whichbe commented on the word shmata
(Yiddish) a rag; hence, anything worthless.
May 13, 2008