shlimazel
Related to shlimazel: shlemiel
shlimazel
slang An unfortunate or unlucky person; someone for whom nothing goes right. From Yiddish. My poor uncle has always been a bit of a shlimazel. Between his failed businesses and his failed marriages, nothing has ever seemed to go right for him. I'm such a shlimazel! I finally saved up enough money to buy a new suit, and it gets caught on the door frame and rips the very first time I wear it.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
shlimazl
verbSee schlemazel
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- schlemazel
- schlemozzle
- shlimazl
- schlimazel
- mensch
- schlemiel
- schlemihl
- shlemiel
- nudnik
- schlepper