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Snowclone

A 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 effect. For example, the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's widely publicized phrase "the mother of all battles" in 1991 spawned such variations as "the mother of all traffic jams" or "mother of all bombs".…

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Snowclone

Nodes111
Edges110
Triples158
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018018
Components1

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related to The mother of all X · 28
Snowclone → All Bombs, Although, American, Arab, Arabic, Baghdad, Budgets, CE, Coalition, Council, Father, Gulf War, January, Kuwait, Let, Ma'arik Mosque, Mother, New Zealand's, Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Command
related to Have X, will travel · 25
Snowclone → Bo Diddley's, Bob Hope, Have, Have Cool, Have Guitar, Have Guitar Will Travel, Have Gun, Have Love, Have Rocket, Have Space Suit, Have Tux, Heinlein's, Hope, Joe Perry's, London, Megadeth's, Richard Berry's, Robert, The, The Three Stooges
related to Further reading · 20
Snowclone → Archived, Barnette, Barrett, Geoffrey, Grant, How, Interview, June, Martha, Nation, Neal Conan, New Scientist, November, NPR, October, Pullum, Retrieved November, Talk, The, Web Is Changing Language
related to X is the new Y · 13
Snowclone → According, Comedy, Diana Vreeland's, Examples, Frequently, India, Nathan Bierma, Netflix, New Black, New Loud, Orange Is, Quiet Is, The
related to To X or not to X · 11
Snowclone → Arnold Zwicky, Christians, Google, Hamlet, In, Scripture, Shakespearean, This, To, William Shakespeare's, Zwicky
related to Eskimo words for snow · 10
Snowclone → Edmonton Sun, Eskimo, Eskimos, Germans, If Eskimos, In, Inuit, Pullum, The Economist, Yupik
related to history · 10
Snowclone → Eskimo, Geoffrey, Glen Whitman, In, January, Language Log, October, Pullum, The, Whitman
related to The Tao of X · 10
Snowclone → Beginning, Benjamin Hoff, Bruce Lee's The Tao, Examples, Fritjof Capra's The Tao, Jeet Kune Do, Physics, Pooh, Steve, The Tao
related to X considered harmful · 10
Snowclone → ACM, As, Communications, Edsger Dijkstra, Go To Statement Considered, GOTO, Harmful, Its, Niklaus Wirth, The
related to Liberated suffixes · 7
Snowclone → English, Italian, Libfixes, Suffixes, Tangentopoli, These, Watergate

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Snowcloneis aphrasal template based on a cliché0.90text
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowPullum0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowIf Eskimos0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowEskimos0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowEskimo0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowInuit0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowYupik0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowIn0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowThe Economist0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowGermans0.60section
Snowclonerelated to Eskimo words for snowEdmonton Sun0.60section
Snowclonerelated to External linksThe Snowclones Database0.60section

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