schmear

It took Jack just overnight to decide to do the whole schmear.

"And of course to get away you have to spend more money - on second homes, vacations, the whole schmear."

Although your nose could do with a little schmear of something.'

A cup of low-fat yogurt or a salt bagel with a schmear?

Many of us, that is, believed we could put in for one order of rose garden, with a schmear on the side.

Cheesemakers often refer to the growth of the bacteria as a schmear.

- a bagel with a schmear beside the African water hole.

So, I'll have that bagel with a schmear, but not simply because one study among many gave me a green light, at least for the moment.

He insists on observing the Sabbath and the dietary laws - the whole schmear.

A few days later, I saw a pigeon on the sidewalk eating a bagel with a schmear.

I missed him and sent a thick schmear of cheese grits across his leather seats.

"Bagel with a schmear and a decaf to go.

That sounds to me like a better recipe for consistent happiness than a salt bagel with a schmear.

Ask for a bagel with a schmear.

"We put only a schmear of sweet butter on the bread, but it changes the sandwich from the prosaic to the extraordinary," he says.

But she's got the whole schmear.

I want factories, restaurants, the whole schmear.

I can't begin to tell you the systems I got into: government, universities, research labs, military, banks-the whole schmear.

They only need a schmear.

For the purist, the platter - without the Russian-dressing schmear - is the bedrock test of authenticity.

Customers want an unbroken schmear surface.

We keep the whole schmear!"

The correct New York word for a layer of cream cheese is a Yiddish-inflected "schmear."

If a sit-down breakfast is not your thing, head over to the cheese shop (stocked with 500 varieties) for a bagel and a schmear.

Smelt on spelt with a schmear.

In one commercial, Mr. Koch demonstrates how to "schmear" cream cheese on bagels to Fred, who mispronounces it as "smear."

GO AHEAD AND SPREAD IT How much easier it would be To schmear a bagel evenly, If only one could solve the riddle Of the hole in the middle.