English words from Yiddish
- cheap like borschtVery inexpensive.
- chopped liverA Jewish pâté-like food, usually spread on bread, made by mincing beef or chicken liver and onions which have been broiled or fried in schmaltz (“chicken fat”) together with hard-boiled eggs.
- enough alreadyStop; that is enough (of some negative behavior such as arguing).
- go figureExpresses perplexity, puzzlement, or surprise (as if telling somebody to try to make sense of the situation).
- hold byTo subscribe to (an idea , rule, authority, etc.); to personally consider valid or authoritative.
- hole in the headA gunshot wound to the head.
- like a hole in one's headAbsolutely not; used to describe how little one needs an undesirable thing or situation.
- one should be so luckyIt is highly doubtful: indicating that something is not likely to happen to the person specified.
- palm treeA tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.