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Meaning of fancy-schmancy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Synonym of schmancy.

Equivalents

Svenska snofsig

Examples

The keys you use to move around are all grouped together. If you have the fancy-schmanciest kind of keyboard, they’re between the alphabet keys and the number keypad, with the arrow keys arranged in an upside-down T at the bottom and Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, and PageDown, lumped together at the top.”
First of all, the garden party usually takes place on a Saturday, so you can make a fashion statement in your fancy-schmanciest clothes and stun the opposite sex by emerging like theAfterinstead of theBeforepart of a “Dump that Frumpy Lookmakeover.”
““Wait, you have a radio in your collar?” “Of course, what kind of an idiot would strap his only means of emergency communication to his wrist? They always tie you up.” “Oh, well, fancy schmancy.””
And Pink, one of the few clubs left in the city devoted to house musicremember that? — closed Jan. 4. I disagreed with some of the fancy-schmancier aspects of Pink’s approach, but I still loved it in occasional doses.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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