fancy-schmancy

(ˈfæntsiˈʃmæntsi)

mod. fancy; very fancy. This one is just too fancy-schmancy for Heidi.

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Ideomotor response is the fancy-schmancy term scientists use to say that you moved the message indicator yourself without knowing that you did it.

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Not fancy-schmancy cards that sing and dance, but cards that look and sound different--that keep greeting cards interesting.

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50, Asda Retro trend: TAP WATER Coconut water, birch water, maple water, water with vitamins, water with electrolytes: there are so many fancy-schmancy ways to hydrate, each with a (sort of) cast-iron guarantee of being more beneficial/more hipster/ loved by more celebs.

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One airport lounge is trying to rectify the imbalance with a new water bar by fancy-schmancy Norwegian company Voss.

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I don't try to be posh or fancy-schmancy or give myself airs as a celebrity.

fit for fame Somebody wonderful loves me... nothing else really matters; Frank, funny and not in the least bit "fancy-schmancy", actress Miriam Margolyes talks to GABRIELLE FAGAN about falling in love and what it was like to lose her mother to a stroke

All fancy-schmancy, frou-frou bets are off because you are raising demons.

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His creations include film, television, stop-motion animation, children's books, mascots, parade floats, toy prototypes and fancy-schmancy gallery shows with people whom he has absolutely nothing to talk about.

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It's got the familiar feel of a commercial lube--it's thin, viscous and comes in an unassuming white-and-purple tube--so no one will ever be the wiser about its fancy-schmancy ingredients, like "organic borago officinalis seed oil" (blosson-organics.

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For, indeed, it is a story of how Al Jazeera's new fancy-schmancy coach went to Belhasa Driving School to pick up his driver's licence.

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So when The Sounds of the City blog notes, as part of its ongoing excavation of signs that punk has reached an awkward age, that "The first four Ramones are being re-released on fancy-schmancy 180-gram vinyl, so they can be properly appreciated by audiophiles/collectors," naturally, I was struck by a deep sense of irony.

Wigging out at Ralph's

Arthur, an amiable Australian barista, isn't merely a wizard of Oz at making a flat white (a fancy-schmancy coffee with an artistic pattern of foam on the top).

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Despite the fancy-schmancy new digs, all of the "classic arena fare" available at the old Mac Court will cost the same at the new place.

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And just like that, fancy-schmancy coffee had been reclaimed for the masses.

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But I'm not running some fancy-schmancy consumer brand.

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But don't ignore the enterprise solutions rolling out, because the tipping point of communications is a fancy-schmancy IP phone.

What's not to love about VoIP? New technologies are pushing the limits of mobility

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