Sentences with word «schnook»
The word "schnook" is a Yiddish term that means a naïve or gullible person. It describes someone who is easily fooled or taken advantage of. Full definition
Sex is a metaphor for every transaction, and we watch as DiCaprio repeatedly acts out his consummation of the deal in rooms full of voyeuristic traders, while some poor schnook on the other end of the line happily gets the shaft.
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Woody Harrelson and Randy Quaid do all right as a has - been bowler and an Amish schnook on their way to Reno for a million - dollar tournament, but they can't straddle the line between the real and unreal the way Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels did in «Dumb and Dumber.»
The analogy breaks down quickly however, as the poor skinny schnook would quickly learn to avoid the boxer.
Lemmon's turn as the put - upon quotidian schnook pervaded the rest of his career.
Such an actor is Michael Pena, who plays a poor schnook Haller once defended only for him to wind up in San Quentin prison.
He is by no means a prototypical hero, but he stands notably apart from the parade of schnooks and oddballs who typically populate their films.
Sydney Pollack employed von Sydow to great effect as one such fellow, a very slick assassin who actually commits the murders that CIA research schnook Robert Redford is supposed to take the rap for.
Future Mad Max Tom Hardy — who does the finest, most cryptic work here — is Bob, a wool - hat wearing schnook who tends bar and keeps to himself.
But in the nearly 50 years since that one - two punch, he's given us some of the most memorable turns in American movies: Watergate muckrakers and Judge Wapner - loving savants, existential detectives and enraged divorcees, psychopathic gangsters and profane stand - ups, two - bit crooks and first - rate schnooks.
Jerry is your classic Jack Lemmon schnook, with a couple of kinks thrown in.
What if charges are filed by federal prosecutors over this, only the poor schnook (Natoli) that signed the instruments will face charges and the Senators that condone his actions will leave the guy high and dry.
They're the big shots around here, and I'm just some schnook that likes to get slapped around.
I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook»), there's a bit of a companion piece to Goodfellas that was also released in 1990 — although its much lighter tone definitely left it eclipsed by Scorsese's Oscar - winning film.