"Slow-down your shutter, your overlaoding me" ("Tsamtsem, ata lo ba-li tov" in Hebrew)

Originated from contemporary spoken Hebrew, it defines a situation where an agitated person, most probably with a splitting head-ache, hang-over or before his first morning cofee, is asking another to calm down, don't use verbose sentences, speak slower or not to overload his aching head with issues that requires listening, thinking or focusing.

This phrase, originating from a leading Israeli comedy show, is well curved in contemporary spoken language and it means (in a free translation): - "slow down your shutter, your "homing in" on me in an overloading manner".

Gesture-aware people most often accompany this phrase with an overdramatic facial expression of a person abrupting his 1-hour sleep after having an awful hang-over, by some woody-allen style geek who lightens up the room and asking him if he read about the new star names EL-12141 reently discovered in our solar system.

You have just broken up with your girlfriend, and you have a splitting headache after a long night of non-fruitful pick-up bar road-show, and you have just been awaken your MBA roomate who opens your room windows wide, turns on the music loudly, and tells you in a patronizing voice "look at you, I am going to take care of you. Do you want me to prepare you an organic Soya drink? and then, we can practice some Yoga, and then..."

You then bluntly, with a suffering voice, eyes half-shut,your right hand blocking the rude sunlight coming from the windows, looking at him and, right before falling asleep again, saying "Tsamtsem, ata lo ba-li-tov".

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ToV

acronym for “tone of voice”

She made fun of me for having a gay ToV, what a bitch.

Baal Shem Tov

Baal Shem Tov, (Yisroel Ben Eliezer) born in what is present Ukraine, was a great rabbi and jewish mystic and is regarded as the founder of hasidic judaism

Baal Shem Tov is widely regarded ss the founder of chassidism

Mozel Tov

Banging an explicit gang that only straight shooters are in.

Mozel Tov: It is a Jewish sign of Goodluck

mazel tov mix

A medley of hip pop and chart-topping R&B played at middle school dances and Bar Mitzvahs. For fast dances, you would hear the likes of Flo Rida and T Pain. For slow dances, expect "Umbrella" and "No One". And then for dance or karaoke competitions, you have "Crank Dat" by Soulja Boy or "Cyclone" to stand in loose groups and lip sync to. So called the Mazel Tov Mix because while music all the same, it is largely fake and electronic sounding, with shallow lyrics and allusions to more authentic hip hop/R&B, but still what kids on the "cutting edge" listen to.

ENSEMBLE OF 7TH GRADE GIRLS: "With you, with you, with you, with you, with you---"
GIRL: "I'm tearing up"
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"It's 'Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, why'd you have to go, away from home, me love' not 'oh, oh, oh, oh, don't go, away from home, me love'!"
"Yeah Cadence, get with it!"
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ENSEMBLE OF 7TH GRADE BOYS: "Anywhere you need it's guaranteed to go down" (Glock rocking gesture)
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"Do you think 'Get Low' is too explicit for my Mazel Tov Mix?"
"The parents would go for Sarah Bereilles' 'Love Song' but what can you do?"