Question of the Day #814

Were there certain countries that were actually winners in this whole supply chain mishegoss?

From the headline of this article at Newsweek.

  上記の文で、mishegossの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "mishegoss" mean?

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解答

意味：
Weblioによると、

狂気

厳密にいうと、mishegossは英語ではなくYiddishですが、Yiddishの単語が英文・英会話の中で使用されるようになっています。

発音を確認したい場合は、Vocabulary.comで音声を聞くことができます。  

Answer

According to Vocabulary.com:

(Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity

 

Examples

• "It just doesn’t fit into the normal —— 'Broadway mishegoss,' Ms. Taymor said." New York Times Nov 24, 2010
• "I think it's great that in the midst of all this mishegoss on the debt ceiling, budget, deficits, stimulus, the committee is taking the time to look at the longer term challenges that middle class families have been struggling with well before the recession took hold."
• "After the Janet Jackson bosom mishegoss, the NFL got scared of hiring young people, because all young people want to do is take off their clothes, and if you watch television, you know the last thing you ever see on TV is young people taking off their clothes."
• "In the end, compromises were struck and the blizzard — which stopped almost every show in town except the unstoppable Leguizamo — made much of the mishegoss moot."
Chicago Tribune Feb 11, 2011
• But as Leo Rosten noted in his classic "The Joys of Yiddish," mishegoss is more often used in a light, amused, madcap vein: "a wacky, irrational, absurd belief . . . a piece of tomfoolery" or, in another sense, a foolish fixation: "She has a new mishegoss -- that the neighbors are trying to ruin her."

 

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