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A slew of words like mavin and chutzpa , phrases like the bottom line and the whole megillah , idioms like eat one's heart out and need it like a hole in the head , formative elements like shm-(fancy/shmancy, value/shmalue) and -nik (spynik, noshnik) have become common coin in colloquial English, especially in the United States.
The other day I used the word megillah in conversation with an editor from Oxford University Press and he at once asked me what it meant.
My instantaneous synonym (appropriate for the context in which I had used it) was screed , which he of course understood; I had to explain that megillah is Hebrew and probably entered (American) English via Yiddish.
and so on through the whole megillah : `long, involved story.