Example sentences for: megillah

How can you use “megillah” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • and so on through the whole megillah : `long, involved story.


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