They treated us like a bunch of schmoes.
I'm just an ordinary schmo trying to make a living.
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The reality is that consumer inflation (the kind regular schmoes like us feel) was pretty mild.—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025 Even if, again, the episode skips over the thorny question of how exactly this group of schmoes managed to cage a pure killing machine.—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025 Wearing his uniform from Coffee High School, Hill ran 6.70 seconds to win a U.S. men’s masters indoor race against regular schmoes.—Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 Doc Odd goes against protocol, though, and saves this schmo’s life a second time in one night.—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025 Listen to this article The Bo Show won’t go if Courtland’s a schmo.—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2025 But even though Mickey 17 is set in outer space about 30 years from now, its hero isn’t that different from those found throughout Bong’s filmography: a working-class schmo.—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025 Some poor schmo rotated 720 degrees sideways while losing both his skis and face planting onto the ice.—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024 By Stephanie Zacharek September 2, 2024 7:49 AM EDT
What separates a genius from the rest of us schmoes?—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 2 Sep. 2024
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