Etymologically speaking the word
shtick has Yiddish origins but is also closely related to German word 'stuck', not be confused with 'stuck-up'.
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These days you don't have to be a Jewish comedian to have a
shtick. It is one of those Yiddish expressions that has completed its journey into everyday English.
A shtickl on shtick
There are electro-disco confections aplenty, including "I Don't Feel Like Dancin"--the best floor-filler ever about playing the wallflower, complete with Elton John on piano--but the standout track comes toward the end, with all histrionics set aside for the captivating mid-tempo love song "Might Tell You Tonight." A band that can craft something this sublime doesn't need to lean heavily on bells and whistles to connect--there's nothing here as shameless as their breakthrough cover of "Comfortably Numb"--and they wisely keep glitzy
shtick to a minimum throughout the stellar Ta-Dah.
You go, girls
Sorrentino had a
shtick, always had the same
shtick, a simple and wonderful
shtick that is almost impossible to reproduce.
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Fifteen years after he took his
shtick global, the hunt for cliche itself has become the main point of his journalism.
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"They're in, they do their
shtick, and they're out," Miller said.
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Transgression today takes the derisory form of Marilyn Manson's carefully calculated marketing
shtick. Is there any sexual practice so extreme that it hasn't found its niche online, where videos featuring it are profitably marketed and where its ins and outs are analyzed in minute detail by its fans?
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The
Shtick: Held at the LGBT Center in New York City, these events draw numerous lesbians.
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Strengths: Ability to play The Lackey, great command of Jessee
shtick, including gratuitous use of the word "buns"
The mystery guests
"I thought country was rightwing, cornball
shtick," Langford says during an interview between stops on a tour.
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Perhaps some of this is "
shtick" designed to enhance the power of the message, but that message would nonetheless fail to resonate if I were disingenuous.
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This hurts here when we learn that some of Fela's
shtick was indeed visionary and prophetic, but some of it Dadaist nonsense.
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"It was really hard for me to drop some of my
shtick and be vulnerable.
Keith Behrman's flower & garnet: bridging the gap between the inner and outer worlds
TRY GETTING THE CROWD TO CHANT, "BUSH IS A SCHMUCK; DON'T BUY HIS
SHTICK." FOR YOUR BIG SPEECH COMING UP AT THE LONGSHOREMAN'S UNION, LET'S ANNOUNCE "THE EUROPEAN UNION IS MESHUGENAH!"
Dick Gephardt in 2004 ST. Louis, Mo
Baxter said the Elvis
shtick, which has taken him around the world for performing and speaking engagements, started in 1996 after his two daughters persuaded him to enter an Elvis contest in Collingwood, Ont.
Elvis imitator (Dorian Baxter) decides it's now or never: says he is victim of suspicious minds