fancy-shmancy

Your blog is part of my routine and I was glad that you were able to be published in a fancy-shmancy mag like Saveur.

Saveur, the Texas issue | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

Why was all this alcohol in my home and not at a fancy-shmancy establishment of some sort?

Tony Sachs: Spirits Tastings From High-End To High-Tech, Courtesy Of Glenfiddich And Wild Turkey 2010

It wasn't until the girls grew up, and Alana had two daughters of her own, that Suzanne learned the reason for their mother's fancy-shmancy, matchy-matchy wardrobe instructions.

Ellis Weiner: Happy-ish New Year 2010

Perhaps it's the way you breathe, or walk, or spit your fingernail out the car window when you're driving your fancy-shmancy VW Golf to work every morning.

Are You A Racist? 2008

But given the preview -- in which Jenner shows the gang a fancy-shmancy Power Point called TS-19 and notes that once a person is infected "everything you were or ever will be" is gone -- we're hoping for a nice, "what's really going on inside the Hatch?"

'The Walking Dead' -- Episode 5: 'Wildfire' Liz Kelly 2010

For the better part of eight years, blue-staters did make it their job to litter conversations at hoity-toity cocktail parties (and then, fancy-shmancy unemployment lines) with jokes, references, and, yes, peculiarly extended film metaphors at the expense of our former president.

Martin Marks: Bushenschadenfreude: Where has it all Gone? 2009

I looked forward to trying it with the fancy-shmancy cocktail recipes I'd been sent.

Tony Sachs: New Amsterdam Gin Made A Mixologist Out Of Me... Sort Of 2009

And their Concierge 360 service has alliances with hotels, salons, car services and other swanky service providers -- everything a well-heeled traveler needs for a fancy-shmancy trip.

Tony Sachs: Luxury Travel For Budget-Conscious Big Shots? Fame Route Has The Answer 2009

It's all Prada and Varvados and fancy-shmancy restaurants!

Richard Laermer: Story of Reusing The City: Welcome to High Line 2009

Like we're all making our own lives, and the lives of our children, unnecessarily complicated with all our fancy-shmancy "diaper bags" and "wipes" and "toys" and whatnot.

Meredith Lopez: Keep It To Yourself 2009