Fancy-shmancy

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of fancy-schmancy. alt-of, alternative

    "Incidentally, [Richard] Feynman once told me, while we were watching some show, that fancy-shmancy mathematical physics as applied to physics is not worth “a bottle of piss-water”."

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schmancy

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"Incidentally, [Richard] Feynman once told me, while we were watching some show, that fancy-shmancy mathematical physics as applied to physics is not worth “a bottle of piss-water”."

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