1. A term used to describe something expensive and impressive 2. A term used to mockingly describe something expensive and attempting to be impressive
1. My new watch cost $10,000 and is really shiny. It sure is fancy shmancy
2. Wow your house is so large in this tiny neighborhood filled with impoverished people. It's pretty fancy shmancy
Adjective. Describes an extraordinarily fancything, event, or person that your jealousy causes you to play down.
a) beyond your social class and/or tax bracket
b) you failed to get the invite
c) you never heard of becuase you are "out of the loop"
* Sometimes accompanied by hand-on-hip
"Get a load of Miss fancy shmancy flaunting her Movados and her Escalade!"
"I ate alone last night because my jerk friends all went to that fancy shmancy party uptown."
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.