| Ever since Gifkin leaves us, y'understand, we got in our cutting room one schlemiel after another. |
| The song ends up a hit, and the schlemiel has done it again. |
| Its hero is a lovable schlemiel opposed by a wincingly evil character. |
| Thus, the neurotic schlemiel from the shtetl is whisked away to be planted firmly in Manhattan for all to watch. |
| There is an old Yiddish word schlemiel, which is someone who falls on his or her back and breaks his or her nose. |
| Woody has always traded on his paradoxical self-image: schlemiel and stud, the unprepossessing wimp who is none the less a magnet for bright and beautiful women. |
