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Meanings of poor schmuck in English

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Usage of poor schmuck in English
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Now I was Percy Jackson, the poor schmuck with the ugly monster for a brother.
The Sea of Monsters
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I threw it in the wastebasket to spare the next poor schmuck from having to read it.
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
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Knowing you as I do, you poor schmuck, I see you imagined you were listening to Glenn Gould.
Black house
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But I suspect that even then the poor schmuck android laborers knew the locals' version of the Shrike story.
The Hyperion Cantos
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So the day comes when she walks out of the house and the poor schmuck is just standing there, saying, 'Wait.
The dog said bow-wow
6
I need food and gas and money to pay Phyllis so she can start hounding some other poor schmuck for his rent.
In Time
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Here I'm just a poor schmuck of a patient, but at home, if I ever manage to get back there, they call me sir.
Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
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What if the man he held in the chamber was the unwitting party to all this, and the agent had used the poor schmuck?
The bone chamber
9
According to the radio chatter, they've got this poor schmuck cornered at the north end and they're burning the fucking jungle down to .
Carrion comfort
10
" Poor schmuck drowned in Lake Norman last Labor Day weekend."
Bones Never Lie
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"The poor schmuck leaves behind a wife, three kids, and a crappy ten acres."
Speaking in Bones
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"Spare me the poor schmuck's life story," she snapped.
Futures 1
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Poor schmuck across language varieties
United States of America
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