fancy-schmancy
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
fancy-schmancy (comparative fancy-schmancier, superlative fancy-schmanciest)
- Synonym of schmancy.
- 1993, Christian Crumlish, “Using the Arrow Keys”, in Murphy’s Laws of WordPerfect 6 for DOS (The Murphy’s Laws Computer Book Series), Alameda, Calif.: SYBEX, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Getting Around Your Document), page 32:
- 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.
- 2003, Grace Dent, “Banging the Drum of Love”, in It’s a Girl Thing (LBD; 1), 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, pages 29–30:
- 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 the “After” instead of the “Before” part of a “Dump that Frumpy Look” makeover.
- 2006 August 6, Jackson Publick, “Twenty Years to Midnight” (16:13 from the start), in The Venture Bros.[1], season 2, episode 5, spoken by Dr. Rusty Venture (James Urbaniak):
- “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.”
- 2009 January 14–20, Marke B., “Fair game”, in Bruce B. Brugmann, editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 43, number 16, San Francisco, Calif.: Bay Guardian Co. Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, columns 2–3:
- And Pink, one of the few clubs left in the city devoted to house music — remember 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.