noun
Probably a word from yiddish, meaning "mess" in a rather trivialized way. It usually describes a situation involving people. A dirty room would not be a Schlamassel.
The financial crisis really caused a schlamassel. The situation at work is a real schlamassel.
When someone makes more fuss about something than it ist worht, he ist doing an Affentanz. When there is a great effort to reach a ridiculous goal, that's an Affentanz.
It literaly means: "Monkey's dance."
They did an Affentanz just to get their license plate. Why does it take such an Affentanz to geht a Visa?
a noun, describing a rather major size meal, usually involving a large group of people. However, it can also be used to express fondness for other things, such as films (Augenschmaus) , music, (Ein Ohrenschmaus) etc. It is an exclusivlely positive word.
This sausage is really a schmaus! Harry Potter was really a schmaus to read.
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