snowclone

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

, after the popular idea that the Inuit have a large number of words for different types of snow; coined by Glen Whitman in response to Geoffrey Pullum on the blog Language Log.

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