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Snowclone
Jumat, 2026-06-05 14:33:31A snowclone is a phrasal template based on a cliché, substituting words to express a similar idea in a different context, often to humorous or sarcastic...
Click to read more »Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Rabu, 2026-05-13 12:20:05subtitle "Electric Boogaloo" has entered the popular-culture lexicon as a snowclone nickname to denote an archetypal sequel. The three main dancers from Breakin'...
Click to read more »Take This Job and Shove It
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 10:11:45it" became a popular phrase as a result of the song. It also became a snowclone phrase, leading to a variety of book and article titles of the form, "Take...
Click to read more »The Simpsons
Kamis, 2026-05-28 07:04:23overlords", was used by Kent Brockman in "Deep Space Homer" and has become a snowclone, with variants of the utterance used to express obsequious submission...
Click to read more »Slang of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom
Rabu, 2026-05-13 23:58:19dialogue (e.g. everypony as a substitution for everybody), portmanteaus, and snowclone variations of popular quotes from the show itself or from its derivative...
Click to read more »Considered harmful
Minggu, 2026-03-08 14:04:01Considered harmful is a part of a phrasal template "something considered harmful". As of 2009[update], this format been used in the titles of at least...
Click to read more »What would Jesus do?
Jumat, 2026-05-29 14:01:122015 film, subtitled The Journey Continues. The expression has become a snowclone with the promotion of phrases such as "What would Lincoln do?", "What...
Click to read more »It's the economy, stupid
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 06:10:16facto slogan for the Clinton election campaign. The phrase has become a snowclone repeated often in American political culture, usually starting with the...
Click to read more »Olim (disambiguation)
Rabu, 2026-03-11 21:15:42significance specific to Jewish immigration to Israel. Olim L'Berlin is a snowclone of that notion, used as protest against high consumer prices in Israel...
Click to read more »Thy name is
Selasa, 2026-05-26 08:51:24"______, thy name is ______" is a snowclone used to indicate the completeness with which something or somebody (indicated by the second part) embodies...
Click to read more »Copypasta
Selasa, 2026-04-14 09:49:25Running gag – Literary device in the form of a repeated joke or reference Snowclone – Cliché used as a pattern for other expressions Shitposting – Intentionally...
Click to read more »(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China
Rabu, 2026-04-29 00:08:36"(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", often shortened to "On a Slow Boat to China" or simply "Slow Boat to China", is a popular song by American...
Click to read more »List of -gate scandals and controversies
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:22:27characterized this use of the -gate suffix as a snowclone. But Geoffrey Pullum, the coiner of the term snowclone, considers that it is only a "lexical word-formation...
Click to read more »Flying while Muslim
Rabu, 2025-08-20 10:58:00aftermath of the September 11 attacks. It is a snowclone inspired by "driving while black"—itself a snowclone of "driving while intoxicated"—which similarly...
Click to read more »Cliché
Selasa, 2026-04-28 03:46:22of English idioms on Wiktionary Meme Platitude Pun Shitposting Slogan Snowclone Speech Stock character Thoughts and prayers Category:Tropes Gary Blake...
Click to read more »Meme
Minggu, 2026-04-12 15:40:35Memetic engineering Muslim meme Phraseme Propaganda Psycholinguistics Snowclone Survivals Universal Darwinism Viral marketing Viral video "meme". Oxford...
Click to read more »Love, American Style
Minggu, 2026-03-29 10:33:29spoofed in 1967 by Divorce, American Style, starring Dick Van Dyke. The snowclone "(xxx), (nationality) Style" became a minor cultural catch-phrase as the...
Click to read more »Placeholder name
Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:34:45typical advertisement for such an establishment, and has itself become a snowclone in the form of X at Joe's, Eat at Y's, or simply X at Y's. It has also...
Click to read more »Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Senin, 2026-03-09 01:30:49Chicago), Kerman was released in March 2005. The title is based on the snowclone "the new black", and on the fact that in the United States, prisoners...
Click to read more »Catchphrase
Kamis, 2026-03-26 02:55:48"Holy..." Jabberwocky Meme Neologism Proverb Set phrase Slogan Sound bite Snowclone Trademark look Pawlowski, A (March 9, 2009). "You talkin' to me? Film...
Click to read more »Old soldiers never die
Selasa, 2026-03-03 16:09:04gave him the light to see that duty. The phrase generated a host of joke snowclones, such as: Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address...
Click to read more »Platitude
Senin, 2025-11-10 16:28:24Politician or orator who panders to fears and emotions of the public Snowclone – Cliché used as a pattern for other expressions Superficiality – Concept...
Click to read more »Crysis
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:24:24high system requirements. The phrase has continued in modern usage, as a snowclone, with any other high-end (or ironically low-end) game title replacing...
Click to read more »2009 MTV Video Music Awards
Kamis, 2026-04-30 19:40:44superimposed onto other images with text in the style of his interruption as a snowclone ("X is one of the greatest Y of all time", or variants thereon, in some...
Click to read more »The Decline and Fall of
Rabu, 2026-04-08 01:09:16Decline and Fall of (alternatively Decline and Fall of) is an English snowclone popularly used in titles of works. It originates from The History of the...
Click to read more »Phrasal template
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:00:16rose <Number> to <Number>", e.g., "common stocks rose 1.72 to 340.36". "Snowclone" was coined in 2004 to describe phrasal templates that "clone" popular...
Click to read more »List of Internet phenomena
Minggu, 2026-05-31 06:57:19The latter part of this phrase quickly took off as a catchphrase and a snowclone in the form of "I used to X, but then I took an arrow in the knee" with...
Click to read more »The Rise and Fall of
Selasa, 2026-04-07 23:24:20The Rise and Fall of is an English snowclone popularly used in titles of works. Examples of its usage include: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, a book...
Click to read more »Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Selasa, 2026-04-28 04:07:11Sex, Lies, and Videotape (often written in all lowercase as sex, lies, and videotape) is a 1989 American independent drama film written and directed by...
Click to read more »Self-referential humor
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:36:24refers to itself Self-referential humor – Humor that alludes to itself Snowclone – Cliché used as a pattern for other expressions Surreal humour – Form...
Click to read more »A Whiter Shade of Pale
Rabu, 2026-05-06 03:15:07like "an Xer shade of Y", to the extent that it has been recognised as a snowclone – a type of cliché and phrasal template. The song is in moderate time...
Click to read more »History of the Jews in Germany
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:33:38relaxed atmosphere and low cost of living. Olim L'Berlin, a Facebook snowclone asking Israelis to emigrate to Berlin, gained notoriety in 2014. Some...
Click to read more »To be, or not to be
Rabu, 2026-05-27 07:40:55"To be, or not to be" is a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1). The speech...
Click to read more »Where no man has gone before
Rabu, 2026-05-06 05:56:04History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions. The phrase has become a snowclone, a rhetorical device and type of word play in which one word within it...
Click to read more »I Can Has Cheezburger?
Jumat, 2026-05-15 23:37:51"oh hai"; and "kthxbai" ("OK, thanks, goodbye"). ICHC has popularized snowclones such as "I'm in your (noun), (verb ending in ing) your (noun)"; " [some...
Click to read more »List of American Dialect Society's Words of the Year
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 17:10:42Word of the Year 2022: a euphemism for the Russian invasion of Ukraine Snowclone/phrasal template of the Year: "not X", to ironically express mock horror...
Click to read more »List of Mcface spoofs
Jumat, 2026-06-05 14:23:57Inspired by Boaty McBoatface, the Internet poll-favoured name for a British polar research vessel operated by the British Antarctic Survey that eventually...
Click to read more »Arrow in the knee
Jumat, 2026-01-30 21:00:15board forums and blogs across the Internet, either as a catchphrase or a snowclone in the form of "I used to X, but then I took an arrow in the knee", by...
Click to read more »These aren't the droids you're looking for
Senin, 2026-03-16 22:19:31is here". It has become a popular Internet meme, generally used in the snowclone form "These Aren't the X You're Looking For" to humorously or sarcastically...
Click to read more »Clarke's three laws
Minggu, 2026-05-31 14:13:13revision of the "Hazards of Prophecy" essay. The third law has inspired many snowclones and other variations: Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence...
Click to read more »Eggcorn
Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:01:07Merriam-Webster dictionary Erard, Michael (20 June 2006). "Analyzing Eggcorns and Snowclones, and Challenging Strunk and White". The New York Times. p. 4. Archived...
Click to read more »The Elf on the Shelf
Jumat, 2026-05-15 09:35:25encouraging other users to rhyme "Ash in the trash", an example of a snowclone. The post was reblogged over 180,000 times. Another Tumblr user, "Kawaii...
Click to read more »Have Gun – Will Travel
Rabu, 2026-05-27 18:32:38Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that was produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television and radio from 1957...
Click to read more »Keep Calm and Carry On
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:57:07Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II. The poster was...
Click to read more »Military–industrial complex
Selasa, 2026-06-02 19:36:20The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen...
Click to read more »50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records, Volume 2
Minggu, 2026-03-15 03:46:31its use in Brown's article. The song prompted the creation of a popular snowclone about fifty million people being wrong. Methodist pastor J. Resler Shultz...
Click to read more »The Most Interesting Man in the World
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 06:48:48The Most Interesting Man in the World is an advertising campaign for Dos Equis beer featuring actor Jonathan Goldsmith as a bearded, debonair older gentleman...
Click to read more »In Soviet Russia
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 04:55:58April 2, 2017. Liberman, Mark (January 29, 2004). "In Soviet Russia, snowclones overuse you". Language Log. Retrieved April 1, 2019. Richards, Stanley...
Click to read more »The Coffee Song
Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:00:17coffee surplus, jokingly claiming that no other beverages are available. Snowclones on this phrase have been used in analyses of the coffee industry, and...
Click to read more »Dude, Where's My Car?
Kamis, 2026-05-28 08:13:21Dude, Where's My Car? is a 2000 American stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner. The film stars Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott as two best...
Click to read more »Very erotic very violent
Kamis, 2026-02-26 11:53:18(暴力; "violence; force"), follows the form of very good very mighty, a snowclone for Internet slang popularized earlier that year. On 27 December 2007...
Click to read more »The Little Engine That Could
Senin, 2026-04-27 21:52:18The Little Engine That Could is an American folktale and story to teach children the value of optimism and hard work. It is best known for its signature...
Click to read more »Rise and Fall
Senin, 2026-03-09 04:48:53All pages with titles containing Rise and Fall The Rise and Fall of, a snowclone Rise or Fall (album) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
Click to read more »Olim L'Berlin
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:51:50known as the Milky protest) was the name of a Facebook page that coined a snowclone in 2014, and was terminated in early 2015. Comparing the high cost of...
Click to read more »You're with me, leather
Rabu, 2026-02-18 13:34:01Berman. The phrase is also often used without context as a non sequitur, snowclone or an inside joke. In a post by Deadspin assistant editor Rick Chandler...
Click to read more »Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 05:14:49"Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten" is the caption of an image created by a user on the Fark website in 2002 that quickly became an internet...
Click to read more »Greenwashing
Minggu, 2026-05-03 00:59:18Greenwashing (a compound word modeled on "Whitewashing"), also called green sheen, is a form of advertising or marketing spin that deceptively uses green...
Click to read more »Little Big Man (film)
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:21:21region-free Blu-ray.[citation needed] Generally, the film's title has been snowcloned and spoofed in various TV shows, such as The Smurfs ("Little Big Smurf")...
Click to read more »Girl, Interrupted
Minggu, 2026-05-24 10:12:26Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric...
Click to read more »Mad Libs
Jumat, 2026-06-05 17:10:37The Game, a card game, in 2016. There is also a Mad Libs mobile app. Snowclone Phrasal template Cloze test Consequences (game) Exquisite corpse Cards...
Click to read more »Sportswashing
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:31:37Sportswashing is a term used to describe the practice of governments, individuals or other groups to use sport as a means to improve their reputation by...
Click to read more »The king is dead, long live the king!
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:05:07"The king is dead, long live the king!" is a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch in various countries. The seemingly...
Click to read more »All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Jumat, 2026-04-17 21:45:41All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a book of short essays by American minister and author Robert Fulghum. It was first published in...
Click to read more »Got Milk?
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 13:42:21Got Milk? (often stylized as got milk?) is an American advertising campaign on television and YouTube encouraging the consumption of milk and dairy products...
Click to read more »Language Log
Rabu, 2025-07-30 16:34:39snow, X surely have Y words for Z", resulted in the coinage of the word snowclone. Both phenomena are common topics at the blog, as is linguification, or...
Click to read more »The new black
Sabtu, 2025-09-20 17:07:11phrase such as "pink is the new black", which has been newly coined as a snowclone. The new black or new black may refer to: The New Black, an album by Canadian...
Click to read more »Kent Brockman
Jumat, 2026-04-03 13:07:10that he was Kent Brockman. Brockman is responsible for popularizing the snowclone "I, for one, welcome our new [fill-in-the-blank] overlords", sometimes...
Click to read more »Where's the beef?
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 06:40:45"Where's the beef?" is a catchphrase in the United States and Canada, introduced as a slogan for the fast food chain Wendy's in 1984. Since then it has...
Click to read more »Beam me up, Scotty
Minggu, 2026-05-24 06:10:33"Beam me up, Scotty" is a catchphrase and misquotation that made its way into popular culture from the science fiction television series Star Trek: The...
Click to read more »Whistle (Flo Rida song)
Rabu, 2026-05-27 03:15:58literally work. 'Whistle while you work it,' later, might have worked–it's a snowclone just stupid enough to stick as a hook–but Flo smothers it in a bunch of...
Click to read more »Eclipse (horse)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 03:27:03still remembered in the phrase "Eclipse first and the rest nowhere", snowcloned as "[name of competitor] first and the rest nowhere", referring to any...
Click to read more »Eskimo words for snow
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:11:45ambiguity to the "Eskimo words for snow" debate. 50 Words for Snow (album) Snowclone – Cliché used as a pattern for other expressions Pinker, Steven (1994)...
Click to read more »Geoffrey K. Pullum
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 10:04:27number of terms which have come to be popularly used including eggcorn, snowclone, and linguification. Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1977). Cole, P.; Sadock, J....
Click to read more »List of Sledge Hammer! episodes
Rabu, 2026-04-08 22:16:21that his Magnum has been used in a new crime spree. The title uses the snowclone "Have X, will travel". 16 16 "The Color of Hammer" Bruce Bilson Mert Rich...
Click to read more »Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?
Senin, 2026-04-27 00:18:43Ethics of Aristotle". "Mistake" also has a legacy as the origin of a snowclone for the titles of academic papers ("Does X Rest on a Mistake?"), especially...
Click to read more »Very good very mighty
Minggu, 2025-11-02 20:16:07increasingly popular among netizens of mainland China as internet slang and snowclone.[citation needed] In the December 27, 2007 edition of CCTV's daily newscast...
Click to read more »Sanewashing
Selasa, 2026-05-19 10:31:09Sanewashing is the act of minimizing the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea in order to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience...
Click to read more »Image sharing
Selasa, 2026-03-24 23:34:59socio-cultural role in that they can establish neologisms, Internet memes, snowclones, slogans, catch phrases, shared vocabularies and categorizations as well...
Click to read more »Glossary of Scientology
Kamis, 2026-05-21 09:06:45lifetime; later Scientologists tended to use the term LRH. Used still in the snowclone phrase "What would Ron do?" Rondroid From Ron + "android". Coined as a...
Click to read more »Glen Whitman
Senin, 2025-07-07 04:04:29including language and linguistics, Whitman is credited with coining the word snowclone in 2004. "Meet the Authors of Economics of the Undead". College of Business...
Click to read more »Have Guitar, Will Travel (Joe Perry album)
Selasa, 2025-09-30 21:11:18album's first single was "We've Got a Long Way to Go." The title is a snowclone of the phrase "Have Gun – Will Travel", and also possibly a reference...
Click to read more »No Sex Please, We're British
Senin, 2026-01-19 16:54:21‹ The template Infobox play is being considered for merging. › No Sex Please, We're British is a British farce written by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott...
Click to read more »Construction grammar
Senin, 2025-10-06 13:41:19Anankastic conditional Construction morphology Prosodic construction Snowclone Goldberg, Adele (2006). Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization...
Click to read more »-washing
Senin, 2026-05-11 03:08:36The -washing suffix is used in various fields to discuss an individual's or organization's claimed promotion of pro-social values without putting those...
Click to read more »Yerida
Selasa, 2026-06-02 15:06:06עולים לברלין, progress towards Berlin) 2014 a Facebook website coined a snowclone and the so-called 'pudding or milky protest' in Israel, as the prices...
Click to read more »The wrong type of snow
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:12:38British English phraseology, it has come to be regarded as an example of a snowclone, a type of reusable cliché with many variants. During the December 2009...
Click to read more »Schwabenhass
Senin, 2026-01-12 17:39:08infiltration or domination by immigrants. Prenzlauer Berg slogans included snowclones such as „Schwaben töten“ (Kill Swabians), „Wir sind ein Volk. Und ihr...
Click to read more »Youth Residential Complex
Sabtu, 2025-11-08 05:44:23Construction Magazine, February 3, 2008. Note: the article title is a snowclone from the Soviet slogan "Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives, Lenin Will Live" (in...
Click to read more »Redwashing
Minggu, 2026-03-08 21:54:19Redwashing is the practice of a collective entity presenting itself as progressive and concerned about social equality and justice, in order to use this...
Click to read more »Title drop
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:17:18Squad is notable for having its title drop seem forced. This led to many snowclone memes imitating it. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse contains forty-four...
Click to read more »Joel Silberg
Minggu, 2026-05-31 16:00:46subtitle "Electric Boogaloo" would enter the pop-culture lexicon as a snowclone pejorative nickname to denote an archetypical sequel. Author Kimberly...
Click to read more »The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (film)
Selasa, 2026-03-03 11:15:43The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Spanish: La revolución no será transmitida), also known as Chávez: Inside the Coup, is a 2003 Irish documentary film...
Click to read more »McWord
Jumat, 2025-10-03 02:25:36A McWord is a word containing the prefix Mc-, derived from the first syllable of the name of the McDonald's restaurant chain. Words of this nature are...
Click to read more »We are all Keynesians now
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:56:55"We are all Keynesians now" is a famous phrase attributed to Milton Friedman and later rephrased by U.S. president Richard Nixon. It is popularly associated...
Click to read more »"Holy..."
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 15:37:12"Holy...!" (for example "Holy shit!", "Holy mackerel!" or "Holy smoke!", and perhaps most commonly "Holy cow!") is an exclamation of surprise used mostly...
Click to read more »Driving while black
Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:38:47that just increasing stops reduces crime." Variations on the phrase ("snowclones") include "walking while black" for pedestrian offenses, "learning while...
Click to read more »Shit Girls Say
Minggu, 2026-03-01 08:27:01an Internet meme, the series itself has been parodied on YouTube as a snowclone for other demographics, both for humorous effect and non-humorous, political...
Click to read more »Shopping while black
Selasa, 2026-04-07 13:08:06"Shopping while black" is a phrase used for the type of marketplace discrimination that is also called "consumer racial profiling", "consumer racism" or...
Click to read more »Frankfurt's Way or Labour's Way
Selasa, 2024-08-13 18:42:05"Frankfurt's Way or Labour's Way" (sometimes repeated as "Labour's Way or Frankfurt's Way") was a campaign slogan used by the then Irish Labour Party leader...
Click to read more »Running while black
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:42:11Running while Black is a sardonic description of racial profiling experienced by Black runners in the United States and Canada. In the United States, jogging...
Click to read more »Purplewashing
Minggu, 2026-03-08 22:07:24Purplewashing is the use of feminist or LGBTQ+ issues to mask discriminatory or harmful practices. It involves selectively promoting certain aspects of...
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