snowclone
Noun
Meaning
snowclone (plural snowclones)
A type of cliché which uses an old idiom formulaically placed in a new context.
"To fry or not to fry" is a snowclone of the famous quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet, "To be or not to be".
Noun
snowclone (plural snowclones)
A type of cliché which uses an old idiom formulaically placed in a new context.
"To fry or not to fry" is a snowclone of the famous quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet, "To be or not to be".