If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It In Yiddish: The Book Of Yiddish Insults And Curses

You don’t have to be Jewish to get back at the shmendriks* of the world   Yiddish. It’s the most colorful language in the history of mankind. What other language gives you a whole dictionary of ways to tell someone to drop dead? That schmuck who got promoted over you? Meigulgl zol er vern in a henglaykhter, by tog zol er hengen, un by nakht zol er brenen. (He should be transformed into a chandelier, to hang by day and to burn by night.) That soccer mom kibitzing on her cell phone and tying