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schmaltz

/shmahlts, shmawlts/US // ʃmɑlts, ʃmɔlts //UK // (ʃmælts, ʃmɔːlts) //

麦芽糖,麦芽汁,麦芽威士忌,麦芽糊精

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal. exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.
    • : liquid animal fat, especially of a chicken.

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Examples

  • The annual schmaltz-fest is over and we can all go back to normal.

  • After growing up in Virginia Beach, Va., as Andrea Schmaltz, she got pregnant at 16.

  • The serious one of the pair contended that Otto Schmaltz, the character played by Shean, did not have a whole shirt on his back.

  • Schmaltz and Lachaumareys took the lead along the coast, and all the expedition followed.

  • He and Schmaltz they couldn't have it whole because "half of the back is on the front."

  • And again the fortune of Schmaltz was swept away and again he was kicked.

  • Somehow or other the story of Schmaltz and the shirt had made him sad.