snowclone

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Definition von snowclone im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A type of cliché which uses an old idiom formulaically in a new context

When you read phrases like these in a newspaper, you've stumbled across a particular type of cliché: the snowclone.

A type of cliché which uses an old idiom formulaically in a new context. For example, "its X, but not as we know it"

Etymologie

() Blend of snow cone and clone; coined by Glen Whitman in response to Geoffrey Pullum on the blog Language Log