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As we got drunk we started singing along, however it was with "schlager" vocals (German ballads!) … we were trying to do Rock 'n' Roll!
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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As we got drunk we started singing along, however it was with "schlager" vocals (German ballads!) … we were trying to do Rock 'n' Roll!
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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TroofSeeker said: "Wait - a 'schlager' is a fencing blade?!
Boing Boing 2009
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I lay there, staunching the blood that was running down my cheek; it wasn't a bad wound - no worse than the schlager cut beside it, which de Gautet had given me years ago.
Fiancée 2010
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For example, when Kudrat Ali was giving us sword exercise I found myself once falling into the "rest" position of a German schlager-fencer (not that anyone in India was likely to recognise that), and again, day-dreaming about fagging days at Rugby while cleaning my boots one evening, I found myself humming "Widdicombe Fair" - 'fortunately under my breath.
Fiancée 2010
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Olavi Virta sang tango and schlager, or "iskelmä", music.
The Finnish Frank Sinatra: Olavi Virta Fresca 2009
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A live-in-the-studio recording, this gives friendly nods and nudges to a couple of traditions: European chanson and schlager, North American balladry, the Latin American protest singers of the era, but all of that mixed together with a very individual twist.
Rato's Riches juan.les.pins 2006
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It's a strange german tradition: for every football-world-championship the german team has to produce an album with some schlager-singer.
Die fußball nationalmannschaft. mrdantefontana 2006
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Managed to con some folks into some case of schlager fights .... muwahaha.
roland Diary Entry roland 2005
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I've also come to the conclusion I'm a far better schlager fighter than epee.
roland Diary Entry roland 2005
madmouth commented on the word schlager
hit song (according to the German)
May 1, 2009
gangerh commented on the word schlager
Hm. Sounds as if it should be on the drinks menu at the Verbal Arms, when it's place is actually on the jukebox.
May 1, 2009