snowclone

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I'm willing to bet that the headline was not composed by Dr. Bloom but instead by a snowclone-happy editor at the Times.

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  • Journalists often turned to this snowclone over the course of the twentieth century. —  Language Log
  • A famous use of the "Consider the X" snowclone appeared in the title of MFK Fisher's 1941 book,, —  Language Log
  • I'm willing to bet that the headline was not composed by Dr. Bloom but instead by a snowclone-happy editor at the Times. —  Language Log
  • The lines between different sorts of formulaic expressions are often hard to draw: idiom, snowclone, cliché, catchphrase, or what? —  Language Log
  • There are quite a few fillers for X (which is why the formula looks like a snowclone). —  Language Log
 

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