Definition of schmooze in English:

schmooze

(also shmooze)

verbʃmuːzʃmuz

[no object]North American

1Talk intimately and cosily; gossip.
亲密交谈；闲聊
we schmooze about New York, what she misses
Example sentencesExamples
- Although this is when most of the pieces sell, to punters lubricated by plentiful glasses of wine (or, in this case, beer), it is also the time when the focus is on being seen and schmoozing rather than seeing what the show has to offer.
- ‘Once the event is over you can schmooze if you like, but be respectful at all times,’ she will caution.
- He moved through the crowd schmoozing and smiling, surrounded by an arc of secret service, his suit jacket tossed saucily over his shoulder.
- I can't reach her through the crowds, but I take her presence as a good sign: I am going to be schmoozing with celebs at this festival, big time.
- We've always known that apart from a healthy outdoor sport that can turn you into an obsessive fruit and nut case, golf is a great way of socialising and schmoozing.
- Delightfully shameless, he chats his way though a barrage of rapid-fire lessons on how to schmooze, write, produce, direct, distribute, act and scam your way through the rather sordid underbelly that is the film biz.
- So how does a supposed grassroots party leader and second-tier politician get an invite to schmooze with major world players?
- While this glad-handing was politically motivated, we now also know that they are not above schmoozing with conmen for real-estate discounts.
- Nearly once a month influence peddlers from different worlds gather to gossip, talk business, and schmooze at his Hollywood Hills home.
- So maybe if he schmoozes with enough Scandinavian diplomats, some lucky chap down in Niagara-on-the-Lake will export a few more bottles of Pinot Noir; but I seriously doubt it.
- Once on the scene, L.A. officers took control, got the information they needed, and returned to the road as fast as possible, wasting no time schmoozing with the citizenry.
- Dan, a fresh-faced 40 year old, doesn't get the chance to go boozing and schmoozing with the industry very much.
- Go and schmooze with a VP (trust me, if they have the time every bigwig likes to talk about himself - they might even buy the coffee).
- Your bud, meanwhile, has been cutting, pasting and schmoozing with him for months on yearbook staff.
- Saturday's the day to mingle, cruise and schmooze along Ste-Catherine street when Community Day shuts down one of downtown's main arteries.
- We don't consider schmoozing at interviews to be a bad thing.
- That said, this week's brimming with sparkling repartee and buzzing with bright ideas - so cruise and schmooze to your heart's content.
- For $15 a day, you have a changing area, make-up mirrors, a huge bathroom with showers, fresh towels, shaving supplies and a lounge to schmooze in afterwards with all the chips and pop you want.
- Spaciously arranged so you can schmooze without getting your tush pinched, all the tables are good tables, although many prefer a station by the window where they can soak in the eye-candy out on the street.
- He is sociable and funny without being brassy, so whether he is schmoozing with customers at one of his restaurants or tossing vegetables on the grill during a regular appearance on Good Morning America, he is the ideal brand emissary.
1. 1.1with object Talk in a cosy and intimate manner to (someone), typically in order to manipulate them.
  与…闲聊（以图对某人施加影响）
  she schmoozed every casting agent in town
  Example sentencesExamples
  A lot of people tried to schmooze the director into playing Dracula.
  A well-ventilated humidor means you don't choke on the smoke and the richly lacquered communal bench in the centre is perfect for schmoozing those models and their mates.
  Micheal schmoozed the man called Mr. Burkley with a few presentations about a few ideas he had.
  He is a connoisseur of the finer things in life, well known for his ability to balance a glass of wine in one hand, canapés in the other, while still being able to schmooze the most stony-faced of guests.
  Rather, they are about which studio head can buy the most magazine pages, which actor or actress has schmoozed the most parties, who is bedding whom and who is plotting revenge against whom.
  Rather, these grown-ups smugly go about their business, sipping drinks and schmoozing one another in hopes of earning a big return on their initial investments.
  The election process alone succeeds in mimicking the cutthroat environment of campaign promises, schmoozing constituencies, and mindless pride.
  Two young women in knee-length boots and fixed smiles are schmoozing the room.
  At one of these confabs, I was obliged to tour the floor with my new boss, who wanted to show me how schmoozing the client should be done.
  He was schmoozed at dinner parties.
  At the same time, he's conducting an affair with a college groupie who sideswiped him at a lecture and, beyond that, schmoozing a big shot who might get him a better job.
  She'll meet, greet and schmooze you without you even realising it.
  Despite his fortune, there are no yachts, no ski chalets, no private jets or villas in which to schmooze prime ministers.
  It is purely a marketing event with the goal of creating buzz in the community and, at the same time, schmooze important advertisers.
  I figured I could use my half-Sicilian heritage as a platform with which to schmooze voters (I also brought my cleats).
  These include a beautiful main bar lounge, an exclusive VIP area and another room with banquettes and booths that are perfect for sitting at with your bottle service and schmoozing your date or chatting with your mates.
  We saw it was her, took the laptop over, schmoozed her, explained the project we were doing, and she said yes, she'd do it.
  She schmoozed the Fleet Street writer and barely tolerated the provincial hack.
  Is it because he doesn't schmooze reporters and is such a kind of a rigid, ex-Marine, by-the-book figure?
  Bertie may no longer resemble the sort of guy who might schmooze you in a downtown cocktail bar but at least he does not look like the guy who would wake up suddenly and order you to cancel the party.

nounʃmuːzʃmuz

North American

A long and intimate conversation.
长时间的亲密交谈
we had a wonderful schmooze about the old days
Example sentencesExamples
- But Jacques Chirac, not due for an Oval Office schmooze anytime soon, puts it slightly differently.
- ‘Lashings of booze, and a schmooze with La Crème de la Crème of The Scottish Enlightenment are just a taste of what is on offer,’ the invite said.
- Although the whole schmooze is tuned towards sex.
- There'll be other industry schmoozes, I guess…
- Between one and two, the Grill is chock-full of agents power lunching on mineral water (the schmooze is boozeless in modern LA).
- Hollywood attitude and schmooze might well be the engine that drives this 11-day orgy of movies, parties and buzz.
Synonyms
discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference

Derivatives

schmoozer

nounˈʃmuːzəˈʃmuzər

North American

Inside the hotel large crowds of politicians, their friends and general schmoozers can be seen throughout the whole room.
Example sentencesExamples
- I don't like schmoozers, I don't like liars and I don't like cheats.
- Brilliant minds with controversial ideas get nixed along with third-rate schmoozers.
- I've discovered many a favourite band at the three-day festival, which fills about 24 local clubs with around 400 bands and performers, as well as thousands of music fans and music industry schmoozers.
- Danny is a veteran schmoozer who knows just everybody in the city.

schmoozy

adjectiveschmooziest, schmoozierˈʃmuːzi

North American

Standing under a tent for a cocktail reception getting schmoozy and boozy?
Example sentencesExamples
- Skeptics say the genial chief executive is just a well-connected corporate diplomat, a schmoozy pol in pinstripes.
- I probably should've been a bit more schmoozy, but I'm just useless at it.
- I think it's a dangerous thing to have that schmoozy Washington relationship between reporters and principals, because that's when news doesn't get reported.
- Profiles of McGreevey from throughout his career depict him as a workaholic, driven, charming and schmoozy but eerily hollow in both personal life and political philosophy.

Origin

Late 19th century (as a verb): from Yiddish shmuesn 'converse, chat'.

Rhymes

abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse

Definition of schmooze in US English:

schmooze

(also shmooze)

verbSHmo͞ozʃmuz

[no object]North American

1Talk intimately and cozily; gossip.
亲密交谈；闲聊
we schmooze about New York, what she misses
Example sentencesExamples
- Your bud, meanwhile, has been cutting, pasting and schmoozing with him for months on yearbook staff.
- He moved through the crowd schmoozing and smiling, surrounded by an arc of secret service, his suit jacket tossed saucily over his shoulder.
- ‘Once the event is over you can schmooze if you like, but be respectful at all times,’ she will caution.
- For $15 a day, you have a changing area, make-up mirrors, a huge bathroom with showers, fresh towels, shaving supplies and a lounge to schmooze in afterwards with all the chips and pop you want.
- While this glad-handing was politically motivated, we now also know that they are not above schmoozing with conmen for real-estate discounts.
- That said, this week's brimming with sparkling repartee and buzzing with bright ideas - so cruise and schmooze to your heart's content.
- Although this is when most of the pieces sell, to punters lubricated by plentiful glasses of wine (or, in this case, beer), it is also the time when the focus is on being seen and schmoozing rather than seeing what the show has to offer.
- Nearly once a month influence peddlers from different worlds gather to gossip, talk business, and schmooze at his Hollywood Hills home.
- Go and schmooze with a VP (trust me, if they have the time every bigwig likes to talk about himself - they might even buy the coffee).
- I can't reach her through the crowds, but I take her presence as a good sign: I am going to be schmoozing with celebs at this festival, big time.
- Once on the scene, L.A. officers took control, got the information they needed, and returned to the road as fast as possible, wasting no time schmoozing with the citizenry.
- Spaciously arranged so you can schmooze without getting your tush pinched, all the tables are good tables, although many prefer a station by the window where they can soak in the eye-candy out on the street.
- Delightfully shameless, he chats his way though a barrage of rapid-fire lessons on how to schmooze, write, produce, direct, distribute, act and scam your way through the rather sordid underbelly that is the film biz.
- He is sociable and funny without being brassy, so whether he is schmoozing with customers at one of his restaurants or tossing vegetables on the grill during a regular appearance on Good Morning America, he is the ideal brand emissary.
- So maybe if he schmoozes with enough Scandinavian diplomats, some lucky chap down in Niagara-on-the-Lake will export a few more bottles of Pinot Noir; but I seriously doubt it.
- Dan, a fresh-faced 40 year old, doesn't get the chance to go boozing and schmoozing with the industry very much.
- Saturday's the day to mingle, cruise and schmooze along Ste-Catherine street when Community Day shuts down one of downtown's main arteries.
- We don't consider schmoozing at interviews to be a bad thing.
- So how does a supposed grassroots party leader and second-tier politician get an invite to schmooze with major world players?
- We've always known that apart from a healthy outdoor sport that can turn you into an obsessive fruit and nut case, golf is a great way of socialising and schmoozing.
1. 1.1with object Talk in a cozy or intimate manner to (someone), typically in order to manipulate, flatter, or impress them.
  与…闲聊（以图对某人施加影响）
  she schmoozed every casting agent in town
  Example sentencesExamples
  A lot of people tried to schmooze the director into playing Dracula.
  It is purely a marketing event with the goal of creating buzz in the community and, at the same time, schmooze important advertisers.
  A well-ventilated humidor means you don't choke on the smoke and the richly lacquered communal bench in the centre is perfect for schmoozing those models and their mates.
  Is it because he doesn't schmooze reporters and is such a kind of a rigid, ex-Marine, by-the-book figure?
  She schmoozed the Fleet Street writer and barely tolerated the provincial hack.
  Bertie may no longer resemble the sort of guy who might schmooze you in a downtown cocktail bar but at least he does not look like the guy who would wake up suddenly and order you to cancel the party.
  At one of these confabs, I was obliged to tour the floor with my new boss, who wanted to show me how schmoozing the client should be done.
  Rather, they are about which studio head can buy the most magazine pages, which actor or actress has schmoozed the most parties, who is bedding whom and who is plotting revenge against whom.
  Micheal schmoozed the man called Mr. Burkley with a few presentations about a few ideas he had.
  At the same time, he's conducting an affair with a college groupie who sideswiped him at a lecture and, beyond that, schmoozing a big shot who might get him a better job.
  We saw it was her, took the laptop over, schmoozed her, explained the project we were doing, and she said yes, she'd do it.
  These include a beautiful main bar lounge, an exclusive VIP area and another room with banquettes and booths that are perfect for sitting at with your bottle service and schmoozing your date or chatting with your mates.
  The election process alone succeeds in mimicking the cutthroat environment of campaign promises, schmoozing constituencies, and mindless pride.
  Rather, these grown-ups smugly go about their business, sipping drinks and schmoozing one another in hopes of earning a big return on their initial investments.
  I figured I could use my half-Sicilian heritage as a platform with which to schmooze voters (I also brought my cleats).
  Despite his fortune, there are no yachts, no ski chalets, no private jets or villas in which to schmooze prime ministers.
  Two young women in knee-length boots and fixed smiles are schmoozing the room.
  He is a connoisseur of the finer things in life, well known for his ability to balance a glass of wine in one hand, canapés in the other, while still being able to schmooze the most stony-faced of guests.
  He was schmoozed at dinner parties.
  She'll meet, greet and schmooze you without you even realising it.

nounSHmo͞ozʃmuz

North American

A long and intimate conversation.
长时间的亲密交谈
we had a wonderful schmooze about the old days
Example sentencesExamples
- Although the whole schmooze is tuned towards sex.
- Hollywood attitude and schmooze might well be the engine that drives this 11-day orgy of movies, parties and buzz.
- Between one and two, the Grill is chock-full of agents power lunching on mineral water (the schmooze is boozeless in modern LA).
- ‘Lashings of booze, and a schmooze with La Crème de la Crème of The Scottish Enlightenment are just a taste of what is on offer,’ the invite said.
- But Jacques Chirac, not due for an Oval Office schmooze anytime soon, puts it slightly differently.
- There'll be other industry schmoozes, I guess…
Synonyms
discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference

Origin

Late 19th century (as a verb): from Yiddish shmuesn ‘converse, chat’.

单词	schmooze
释义	Definition of schmooze in English: schmooze (also shmooze) verbʃmuːzʃmuz [no object]North American 1Talk intimately and cosily; gossip. 亲密交谈；闲聊 we schmooze about New York, what she misses Example sentencesExamples Although this is when most of the pieces sell, to punters lubricated by plentiful glasses of wine (or, in this case, beer), it is also the time when the focus is on being seen and schmoozing rather than seeing what the show has to offer. ‘Once the event is over you can schmooze if you like, but be respectful at all times,’ she will caution. He moved through the crowd schmoozing and smiling, surrounded by an arc of secret service, his suit jacket tossed saucily over his shoulder. I can't reach her through the crowds, but I take her presence as a good sign: I am going to be schmoozing with celebs at this festival, big time. We've always known that apart from a healthy outdoor sport that can turn you into an obsessive fruit and nut case, golf is a great way of socialising and schmoozing. Delightfully shameless, he chats his way though a barrage of rapid-fire lessons on how to schmooze, write, produce, direct, distribute, act and scam your way through the rather sordid underbelly that is the film biz. So how does a supposed grassroots party leader and second-tier politician get an invite to schmooze with major world players? While this glad-handing was politically motivated, we now also know that they are not above schmoozing with conmen for real-estate discounts. Nearly once a month influence peddlers from different worlds gather to gossip, talk business, and schmooze at his Hollywood Hills home. So maybe if he schmoozes with enough Scandinavian diplomats, some lucky chap down in Niagara-on-the-Lake will export a few more bottles of Pinot Noir; but I seriously doubt it. Once on the scene, L.A. officers took control, got the information they needed, and returned to the road as fast as possible, wasting no time schmoozing with the citizenry. Dan, a fresh-faced 40 year old, doesn't get the chance to go boozing and schmoozing with the industry very much. Go and schmooze with a VP (trust me, if they have the time every bigwig likes to talk about himself - they might even buy the coffee). Your bud, meanwhile, has been cutting, pasting and schmoozing with him for months on yearbook staff. Saturday's the day to mingle, cruise and schmooze along Ste-Catherine street when Community Day shuts down one of downtown's main arteries. We don't consider schmoozing at interviews to be a bad thing. That said, this week's brimming with sparkling repartee and buzzing with bright ideas - so cruise and schmooze to your heart's content. For $15 a day, you have a changing area, make-up mirrors, a huge bathroom with showers, fresh towels, shaving supplies and a lounge to schmooze in afterwards with all the chips and pop you want. Spaciously arranged so you can schmooze without getting your tush pinched, all the tables are good tables, although many prefer a station by the window where they can soak in the eye-candy out on the street. He is sociable and funny without being brassy, so whether he is schmoozing with customers at one of his restaurants or tossing vegetables on the grill during a regular appearance on Good Morning America, he is the ideal brand emissary. 1.1with object Talk in a cosy and intimate manner to (someone), typically in order to manipulate them. 与…闲聊（以图对某人施加影响） she schmoozed every casting agent in town Example sentencesExamples A lot of people tried to schmooze the director into playing Dracula. A well-ventilated humidor means you don't choke on the smoke and the richly lacquered communal bench in the centre is perfect for schmoozing those models and their mates. Micheal schmoozed the man called Mr. Burkley with a few presentations about a few ideas he had. He is a connoisseur of the finer things in life, well known for his ability to balance a glass of wine in one hand, canapés in the other, while still being able to schmooze the most stony-faced of guests. Rather, they are about which studio head can buy the most magazine pages, which actor or actress has schmoozed the most parties, who is bedding whom and who is plotting revenge against whom. Rather, these grown-ups smugly go about their business, sipping drinks and schmoozing one another in hopes of earning a big return on their initial investments. The election process alone succeeds in mimicking the cutthroat environment of campaign promises, schmoozing constituencies, and mindless pride. Two young women in knee-length boots and fixed smiles are schmoozing the room. At one of these confabs, I was obliged to tour the floor with my new boss, who wanted to show me how schmoozing the client should be done. He was schmoozed at dinner parties. At the same time, he's conducting an affair with a college groupie who sideswiped him at a lecture and, beyond that, schmoozing a big shot who might get him a better job. She'll meet, greet and schmooze you without you even realising it. Despite his fortune, there are no yachts, no ski chalets, no private jets or villas in which to schmooze prime ministers. It is purely a marketing event with the goal of creating buzz in the community and, at the same time, schmooze important advertisers. I figured I could use my half-Sicilian heritage as a platform with which to schmooze voters (I also brought my cleats). These include a beautiful main bar lounge, an exclusive VIP area and another room with banquettes and booths that are perfect for sitting at with your bottle service and schmoozing your date or chatting with your mates. We saw it was her, took the laptop over, schmoozed her, explained the project we were doing, and she said yes, she'd do it. She schmoozed the Fleet Street writer and barely tolerated the provincial hack. Is it because he doesn't schmooze reporters and is such a kind of a rigid, ex-Marine, by-the-book figure? Bertie may no longer resemble the sort of guy who might schmooze you in a downtown cocktail bar but at least he does not look like the guy who would wake up suddenly and order you to cancel the party. nounʃmuːzʃmuz North American A long and intimate conversation. 长时间的亲密交谈 we had a wonderful schmooze about the old days Example sentencesExamples But Jacques Chirac, not due for an Oval Office schmooze anytime soon, puts it slightly differently. ‘Lashings of booze, and a schmooze with La Crème de la Crème of The Scottish Enlightenment are just a taste of what is on offer,’ the invite said. Although the whole schmooze is tuned towards sex. There'll be other industry schmoozes, I guess… Between one and two, the Grill is chock-full of agents power lunching on mineral water (the schmooze is boozeless in modern LA). Hollywood attitude and schmooze might well be the engine that drives this 11-day orgy of movies, parties and buzz. Synonyms discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference Derivatives schmoozer nounˈʃmuːzəˈʃmuzər North American Inside the hotel large crowds of politicians, their friends and general schmoozers can be seen throughout the whole room. Example sentencesExamples I don't like schmoozers, I don't like liars and I don't like cheats. Brilliant minds with controversial ideas get nixed along with third-rate schmoozers. I've discovered many a favourite band at the three-day festival, which fills about 24 local clubs with around 400 bands and performers, as well as thousands of music fans and music industry schmoozers. Danny is a veteran schmoozer who knows just everybody in the city. schmoozy adjectiveschmooziest, schmoozierˈʃmuːzi North American Standing under a tent for a cocktail reception getting schmoozy and boozy? Example sentencesExamples Skeptics say the genial chief executive is just a well-connected corporate diplomat, a schmoozy pol in pinstripes. I probably should've been a bit more schmoozy, but I'm just useless at it. I think it's a dangerous thing to have that schmoozy Washington relationship between reporters and principals, because that's when news doesn't get reported. Profiles of McGreevey from throughout his career depict him as a workaholic, driven, charming and schmoozy but eerily hollow in both personal life and political philosophy. Origin Late 19th century (as a verb): from Yiddish shmuesn 'converse, chat'. Rhymes abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse Definition of schmooze in US English: schmooze (also shmooze) verbSHmo͞ozʃmuz [no object]North American 1Talk intimately and cozily; gossip. 亲密交谈；闲聊 we schmooze about New York, what she misses Example sentencesExamples Your bud, meanwhile, has been cutting, pasting and schmoozing with him for months on yearbook staff. He moved through the crowd schmoozing and smiling, surrounded by an arc of secret service, his suit jacket tossed saucily over his shoulder. ‘Once the event is over you can schmooze if you like, but be respectful at all times,’ she will caution. For $15 a day, you have a changing area, make-up mirrors, a huge bathroom with showers, fresh towels, shaving supplies and a lounge to schmooze in afterwards with all the chips and pop you want. While this glad-handing was politically motivated, we now also know that they are not above schmoozing with conmen for real-estate discounts. That said, this week's brimming with sparkling repartee and buzzing with bright ideas - so cruise and schmooze to your heart's content. Although this is when most of the pieces sell, to punters lubricated by plentiful glasses of wine (or, in this case, beer), it is also the time when the focus is on being seen and schmoozing rather than seeing what the show has to offer. Nearly once a month influence peddlers from different worlds gather to gossip, talk business, and schmooze at his Hollywood Hills home. Go and schmooze with a VP (trust me, if they have the time every bigwig likes to talk about himself - they might even buy the coffee). I can't reach her through the crowds, but I take her presence as a good sign: I am going to be schmoozing with celebs at this festival, big time. Once on the scene, L.A. officers took control, got the information they needed, and returned to the road as fast as possible, wasting no time schmoozing with the citizenry. Spaciously arranged so you can schmooze without getting your tush pinched, all the tables are good tables, although many prefer a station by the window where they can soak in the eye-candy out on the street. Delightfully shameless, he chats his way though a barrage of rapid-fire lessons on how to schmooze, write, produce, direct, distribute, act and scam your way through the rather sordid underbelly that is the film biz. He is sociable and funny without being brassy, so whether he is schmoozing with customers at one of his restaurants or tossing vegetables on the grill during a regular appearance on Good Morning America, he is the ideal brand emissary. So maybe if he schmoozes with enough Scandinavian diplomats, some lucky chap down in Niagara-on-the-Lake will export a few more bottles of Pinot Noir; but I seriously doubt it. Dan, a fresh-faced 40 year old, doesn't get the chance to go boozing and schmoozing with the industry very much. Saturday's the day to mingle, cruise and schmooze along Ste-Catherine street when Community Day shuts down one of downtown's main arteries. We don't consider schmoozing at interviews to be a bad thing. So how does a supposed grassroots party leader and second-tier politician get an invite to schmooze with major world players? We've always known that apart from a healthy outdoor sport that can turn you into an obsessive fruit and nut case, golf is a great way of socialising and schmoozing. 1.1with object Talk in a cozy or intimate manner to (someone), typically in order to manipulate, flatter, or impress them. 与…闲聊（以图对某人施加影响） she schmoozed every casting agent in town Example sentencesExamples A lot of people tried to schmooze the director into playing Dracula. It is purely a marketing event with the goal of creating buzz in the community and, at the same time, schmooze important advertisers. A well-ventilated humidor means you don't choke on the smoke and the richly lacquered communal bench in the centre is perfect for schmoozing those models and their mates. Is it because he doesn't schmooze reporters and is such a kind of a rigid, ex-Marine, by-the-book figure? She schmoozed the Fleet Street writer and barely tolerated the provincial hack. Bertie may no longer resemble the sort of guy who might schmooze you in a downtown cocktail bar but at least he does not look like the guy who would wake up suddenly and order you to cancel the party. At one of these confabs, I was obliged to tour the floor with my new boss, who wanted to show me how schmoozing the client should be done. Rather, they are about which studio head can buy the most magazine pages, which actor or actress has schmoozed the most parties, who is bedding whom and who is plotting revenge against whom. Micheal schmoozed the man called Mr. Burkley with a few presentations about a few ideas he had. At the same time, he's conducting an affair with a college groupie who sideswiped him at a lecture and, beyond that, schmoozing a big shot who might get him a better job. We saw it was her, took the laptop over, schmoozed her, explained the project we were doing, and she said yes, she'd do it. These include a beautiful main bar lounge, an exclusive VIP area and another room with banquettes and booths that are perfect for sitting at with your bottle service and schmoozing your date or chatting with your mates. The election process alone succeeds in mimicking the cutthroat environment of campaign promises, schmoozing constituencies, and mindless pride. Rather, these grown-ups smugly go about their business, sipping drinks and schmoozing one another in hopes of earning a big return on their initial investments. I figured I could use my half-Sicilian heritage as a platform with which to schmooze voters (I also brought my cleats). Despite his fortune, there are no yachts, no ski chalets, no private jets or villas in which to schmooze prime ministers. Two young women in knee-length boots and fixed smiles are schmoozing the room. He is a connoisseur of the finer things in life, well known for his ability to balance a glass of wine in one hand, canapés in the other, while still being able to schmooze the most stony-faced of guests. He was schmoozed at dinner parties. She'll meet, greet and schmooze you without you even realising it. nounSHmo͞ozʃmuz North American A long and intimate conversation. 长时间的亲密交谈 we had a wonderful schmooze about the old days Example sentencesExamples Although the whole schmooze is tuned towards sex. Hollywood attitude and schmooze might well be the engine that drives this 11-day orgy of movies, parties and buzz. Between one and two, the Grill is chock-full of agents power lunching on mineral water (the schmooze is boozeless in modern LA). ‘Lashings of booze, and a schmooze with La Crème de la Crème of The Scottish Enlightenment are just a taste of what is on offer,’ the invite said. But Jacques Chirac, not due for an Oval Office schmooze anytime soon, puts it slightly differently. There'll be other industry schmoozes, I guess… Synonyms discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference Origin Late 19th century (as a verb): from Yiddish shmuesn ‘converse, chat’.
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