What is a scaramuccie?
You bothered an actual person over a meme unit of time.
A Scaramucci (often shortened to "a Mooch") is a joke unit of time equal to about 10 or 11 days.
It's named after Anthony Scaramucci, who served as White House Communications Director under Donald Trump in 2017. He was announced on July 21 and removed on July 31, after a profane interview with The New Yorker. The time is given as 10 or 11 days depending on whether you count from his announcement or his official start date.
People use it to mock short tenures in a job. For example, Liz Truss lasted 49 days as UK Prime Minister in 2022, which is about 4.5 Scaramuccis. Using it for anything longer than a few months makes the numbers silly, and that's the point.
The name comes from Scaramouche, a boastful clown character from Italian commedia dell'arte. You probably know it from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Asking me took well under one Scaramucci.
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