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Every now and then something from film or tv, books too, becomes such a perfect phrase to use in everyday language that it just becomes the go to reference.
Two obvious examples for me being the phrase groundhog day, the use of Trigger's broom for something repaired many times.
What other examples of this do we have?
I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun.
I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
Bucket lists didn't exist before the Jack Nicholson/Morgan Freeman movie, it's a term thought up by the screenwriter. Gaslighting comes from the 1944 Ingrid Berman film, Gaslight. Paparazzi comes from La Dolce Vita. Also: Catfish; "Show me the money"; MILF comes from American Pie; Ghostbusters is credited by the OED as the source of "Toast" as slang meaning someone who's done for/defeated; "My bad", comes from 1985 film Clueless; not forgetting, "The Dark Side" from Star Wars, as in, "Alan Lee played as a striker for Ipswich Town and Crystal Palace before succumbing to The Dark Side".
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 11:36 - Jan 16 with 250 views
Also, not movies or TV, but most of Shakespeare's phrases like "Break the ice", "Wild goose chase", "Good riddance", "Laughing Stock" and loads more are used in common language today.
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