schmear

Related to schmear: the whole schmear

the whole schmear

Something in its entirety, including every related or expected element or detail. I want a traditional wedding, with the cake, the dress—the whole schmear. Our customers can expect the whole schmear from our travel packages—first-class flights, four-star accommodation, and the best restaurants in the entire city.
See also: schmear, whole
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the whole schmear

everything possible or available; every aspect of something. North American informal
Schmear (also spelled schmeer , shmear , or shmeer ) means ‘bribery’ or ‘flattery’, and comes from the Yiddish verb schmirn meaning ‘grease’ or ‘flatter’.
1970 Lawrence Sanders The Anderson Tapes I want a complete list…Any thing and everything…The whole shmear.
See also: schmear, whole
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

the whole schmear

(...ʃmɪr)
n. the entire amount; the entire affair. (Based on Yiddish.) I’ll take a hamburger with everything on it—the whole schmear.
See also: schmear, whole
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

whole schmear

The entirety of something; everything.
See also: schmear, whole
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • the whole schmear
  • whole schmear
  • the whole shooting match
  • the whole lot
  • shebang
  • the whole shebang
  • the whole jimbang
  • the whole jingbang
  • go the whole nine yards
  • the whole nine yards
References in periodicals archive
Cheeses are being soaked, rubbed, schmeared and washed, making their rinds just as interesting and appealing as what's inside.
A Case for French Cheese
Start your "musical fantasy" with a 50-year-old actor hopping around in a raven suit spouting one-liners--simultaneously delivering "bagels with a schmear" in takeout bags from H&H--and your often-impressive work will face an uphill battle.
A Fine & Private Place
Phonetically it resembles the Yiddish Schmear war and has the same meaning ("grease," "Schmaltz") in Swiss dialect.
Niederdorf speak. (Language Corner)
Clever entrepreneurs traded in urban nostalgia, peddling bagels with a schmear, take-out Chinese food spiced down to suit elderly stomachs.
The Scruff of the Neck
Anyway, the wall police say you can get the whole schmear, federal and state posters, to adorn your coffee room or loo for a mere $49.50 (1st set, 2nd set is only $39.50).
Wise & Otherwise
Declining religious observance and intermarriage left the majority of Jews with only a few vestiges of their Jewish identity--what Freedman calls "Seinfeld and a schmear." At the same time, a resurgent Orthodox movement was drawing strength and becoming increasingly strident about what makes a true Jew.
JEW VS. JEW: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
of Golden, Colo., to create a combination of a bagel with a schmear, coffee and a newspaper for $1.99.
SINGLE-COPY SALES FOCUS OF MEETING Cooperation with supermarkets and convenience stores cited as circulation gainers
Note that I didn't call it a schmear (when you put on a serious amount of cream cheese).
The Story of Lender's Bagels or The Making of America's Favorite Bagel
In New York, one-dollar bills are "singles." And if you want to be among the cognoscenti, drop into a deli and ask for "a bagel with a schmear." A bagel, to some tastes, is a doughnut made of hard rubber.
A survivor's guide to New York City
Continue reading "Climate Change, Sure, but What About My Schmear?" at...
Climate Change, Sure, but What About My Schmear?
Speaking of bagels, we can go beyond a "bagel and schmear" (bagel with cream cheese).
Quick and easy sandwich ideas
Or simply a nice schmear of truffle-infused Brillat-Savarin on a nice warm slice of crusty, toasty bread ...
Le Fromage
Then it is most often served on a bagel with a schmear of cream cheese.
Lox: an American love story
Midtown denizens looking for a tasty bagel, some Nova Scotia salmon and a schmear can now find Zucker's Bagels & Smoked Fish, the popular Chambers Street eatery, at 370 Lexington Avenue.
Zucker's Bagels & Smoked Fish opens in Midtown
'English' words like SCHLOCK and SCHMEAR were likewise stolen from Yiddish.
The alphanumeric properties of hyperpolygraphemic oligosyllables