"I know that Leonard Birdsong III is a cryto-Jew. My God, he's passing—the geshmat!" (Oreo by Fran Ross)

“On a bitterly cold, snowy, dreadful night in a Polish town, old Salkowitz, feeling his time had come, called to his wife: 'Shurele, please, send someone to the priest and tell him to come right away—I am dying!' 'The priest? You must have a fever! You mean the rabbi.' 'I mean the priest!' snapped Salkowitz. 'May God protect us! Are you secretly geshmat?' 'No, no; but why disturb the rabbi on a night like this?'” (NJY)