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Noun Concept
Categories: Catchphrases, Articles with short description, Neologisms, Words coined in the 2000s, Snowclones
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snowclone  X is the new Y  catch structure  Have tux, will travel  Mother of all
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A snowclone is a cliché and phrasal template that can be used and recognized in multiple variants. Wikipedia
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A snowclone is a cliché and phrasal template that can be used and recognized in multiple variants. Wikipedia
Neologism for a type of cliché and phrasal template Wikidata
A type of cliché which uses an old idiom formulaically placed in a new context. Wiktionary
A type of cliché. Wiktionary (translation)
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"To fry or not to fry" is a snowclone of the famous quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet, "To be or not to be". Wiktionary
IS A
neologism
platitude
phrasal template
HAS INSTANCE
very good very mighty
What would Jesus do?
thy name is
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catch structure, Have tux, will travel, Mother of all, Snow-clone, Snow clone, snowclones, the mother of all, Winning is the new losing, X is the new y, X is the new Y

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