fancy-schmancy

English

Alternative forms

• fancy-shmancy

Adjective

fancy-schmancy (comparative fancy-schmancier, superlative fancy-schmanciest)

1. 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.

   • 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.