schmo

Related to schmo: shmo, schmoe

Joe Schmoe

An average person, especially a man and typically of the working class. Sometimes spelled "Joe Schmo," "Shmoe," and "Shmo." My brother's just your typical guy, a real Joe Schmoe—you can find him watching a sporting event in a bar after work pretty much any night of the week. If we let Joe Shmo decide the policies in our country, we'd still be stuck in the 1800s.
See also: joe, Schmoe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Joe Schmoe

or

Joe Six-Pack

AMERICAN, INFORMAL
People say Joe Schmoe or Joe Six-Pack to refer to an ordinary, average person. The networks are looking for something they can sell to Joe Schmoe who lives in a caravan in Alabama. The most crucial factor will be the attitude of Joe Six-Pack, the ordinary American consumer.
See also: joe, Schmoe
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

Joe Schmo

(ˈdʒo ˈʃmo)
n. a jerk. Let’s say Joe Schmo wants a new car. What does he do?
See also: joe, schmo

schmo

and shmo and shmoe and schmoe (ʃmo)
n. a foolish and naive person, usually a male. (see also Joe Schmo.) What a schmo! He thinks I caused the problem.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Schmoe
  • shmo
  • Shmoe
  • Joe Schmo
  • Joe Schmoe
  • skirt chaser
  • sponge on
  • sponge on (someone or something)
  • on (someone's or something's) dime
  • brainchild
References in periodicals archive
Of course, Joe Schmo 2 wouldn't be complete without a gay connection.
Killjoys will point out that Chandler have accidentally dressed up a numbers game in which "every horse's odds represent a true reflection of that horse's chance", as if shrewd punters will perform better than your average schmo.
The poor schmo in this song thought he was seeing a musical.
Not just Joe Schmo, dahn at the end of the street 'an 'at.
Jay Leno recently demonstrated that the average schmo doesn't have a clue who those guys carved on Mt.
If you have friends in high places and you make your publication money, you're a lot better off than the poor schmo who writes the obituaries and is caught lifting materials from another paper.
In Richard Ford's novel Independence Day, the realtor Frank Bascombe says that buying a house comes with great anxiety because of that "cold, unwelcome, built-in-America realization that we're just like the other schmo, wishing his wishes, lusting his stunted lusts, quaking over his idiot frights and fantasies, all of us popped out of the same unchinkable mold."[6] In a society that values uniqueness and individuality, that says a fulfilled life is one in which you look inside yourself and discover your own particular values and talents, that valorizes the rule-breaking, anti-establishment, boundary-transgressing anti-hero, there is something terrifying about looking deep inside and discovering that you're no different from the guy next door.
"I think [the merger] is a great thing, that it will actually speed the technology along because there will be a lot of efforts to make broadband available to everybody because there's no way that 'Joe Schmo' in Mesquite is going to be able to look at a lot of this stuff that Time Warner can come up with on its 28.8 modem," says White.
There are several words with the consonant blend `sch' derived from Yiddish -- schlepp, schlock, schmaltz, schmo, schmuck and schnook.
Dodd makes a strong case for those two most underrated novels Entfernung von der Truppe and Ende einer Dienstfahrt, again seeing Boll as a writer within a known literary tradition, linking the anarchic Schmo lder to Schweyk and Baron von Munchhausen (p.
And afterwards I couldn't help saying to Simon: "You must be the only schmo...sorry idiot...in the world to put your arm around Samantha Fox and tell her she's got a lovely chin."
"It used to be that a 10-store chain could go to the Joe Schmo factory and get the best price," said Schoenfeld.
Does the average Joe Schmo care about multiplexing a digitalized compressed video signal into a carrier's carrier optical fiber trunk connected via twisted pair telephone copper wire into a P.C.
The artist gives the working-class schmo permission to make paintings exactly like his, and the showroom legitimizes these as gallery-quality art worthy of reproduction.