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Related to the IceCreamKoan, but differs in that while the first part of the phrase is valid, the second part is clearly tacked on by the speaker. Often said by a SeeminglyProfoundFool in some of his more fauxlisophical moments. YouCantMakeAnOmelette and WhenLifeGivesYouLemons are common victims of this trope. Not to be confused with attempts to separate the face-value meanings of LoadedWords and slogans from the connotations with which they are loaded.
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Related to the IceCreamKoan, but differs in that while the first part of the phrase is valid, the second part is clearly tacked on by the speaker. Often said by a SeeminglyProfoundFool in some of his more fauxlisophical moments. YouCantMakeAnOmelette and WhenLifeGivesYouLemons are common victims of this trope. Not to be confused with attempts to separate the face-value meanings of LoadedWords [[UsefulNotes/LogicalFallacies Loaded Words]] and slogans from the connotations with which they are loaded.
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* From ''Series/{{Blackadder}} the Third'', [[Recap/BlackadderS3E4SenseAndSenility Episode 4]]: "When the going gets tough, the tough hide under the table."
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* TheComeForTheXStayForTheY is subverted by the phrase Arkansas: "Come for the meth, stay because you sold/traded your car to buy meth."
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* TheComeForTheXStayForTheY JustForFun/ComeForTheXStayForTheY is subverted by the phrase about Arkansas: "Come for the meth, stay because you sold/traded your car to buy meth."
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* TheComeForTheXStayForTheY is subverted by the phrase Arkansas: "Come for the meth, stay because you sold/traded your car to buy meth."
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* The signing-off proverbs in ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' often take this form:
-->''If you love someone, set them free. Set them free ''now''. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.''
-->''What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the day and three legs in the evening? I don't know, but I trapped it in my bedroom. Send help.''
-->''If you love someone, set them free. Set them free ''now''. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.''
-->''What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the day and three legs in the evening? I don't know, but I trapped it in my bedroom. Send help.''
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* The signing-off proverbs in "Today's proverb", the CreditsGag at the end of each episode of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' often take this form:
-->''If you love someone, set them free. Set them free ''now''. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.''
-->''Whatare usually like this:
-->What has four legs in the morning, two legsin the day at noon, and three legs in the evening? evening?[[note]]An old riddle: It's a person, crawling on all fours as a baby, walking on two legs for most of their life, and then using a cane in the "evening" of their life[[/note]] I don't know, but I trapped it in my bedroom. Send help.''\\
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If you love someone, set them free. Set them free now. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.
** Also, a twist on a National Rifle Association motto: "Guns don't kill people,[[note]]...people kill people.[[/note]] it's impossible to be killed by a gun, we are all invincible to bullets and it's a miracle".
** One of their other spoofs goes, "Guns don't kill people, and if you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun and you will, coincidentally, die."
** A staple for the Night Vale twitter feed. For example, "Home is where the heart is. You'll never guess where we hid it, though."
-->''If you love someone, set them free. Set them free ''now''. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.''
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-->What has four legs in the morning, two legs
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If you love someone, set them free. Set them free now. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.
** Also, a twist on a National Rifle Association motto: "Guns don't kill people,[[note]]...people kill people.[[/note]] it's impossible to be killed by a gun, we are all invincible to bullets and it's a miracle".
** One of their other spoofs goes, "Guns don't kill people, and if you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun and you will, coincidentally, die."
** A staple for the Night Vale twitter feed. For example, "Home is where the heart is. You'll never guess where we hid it, though."
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* "Today's proverb", the CreditsGag at the end of each episode of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' are usually like this:
-->What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?[[note]]An old riddle: It's a person, crawling on all fours as a baby, walking on two legs for most of their life, and then using a cane in the "evening" of their life[[/note]] I don't know, but I trapped it in my bedroom. Send help.\\
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If you love someone, set them free. Set them free now. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.
** Also, a twist on a National Rifle Association motto: "Guns don't kill people,[[note]]...people kill people.[[/note]] it's impossible to be killed by a gun, we are all invincible to bullets and it's a miracle".
** One of their other spoofs goes, "Guns don't kill people, and if you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun and you will, coincidentally, die."
** A staple for the Night Vale twitter feed. For example, "Home is where the heart is. You'll never guess where we hid it, though."
-->What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?[[note]]An old riddle: It's a person, crawling on all fours as a baby, walking on two legs for most of their life, and then using a cane in the "evening" of their life[[/note]] I don't know, but I trapped it in my bedroom. Send help.\\
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If you love someone, set them free. Set them free now. This is the police, and we have you surrounded.
** Also, a twist on a National Rifle Association motto: "Guns don't kill people,[[note]]...people kill people.[[/note]] it's impossible to be killed by a gun, we are all invincible to bullets and it's a miracle".
** One of their other spoofs goes, "Guns don't kill people, and if you say guns kill people one more time, I will shoot you with a gun and you will, coincidentally, die."
** A staple for the Night Vale twitter feed. For example, "Home is where the heart is. You'll never guess where we hid it, though."
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* Creator/DennisMiller: "That which does not kill me makes me funnier."
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* ''Series/{{Reba}}'': Van, trying to give some relationship advice.
--> '''Van:''' If you love something, let it go. Or cripple it so it can't get away.
--> '''Van:''' If you love something, let it go. Or cripple it so it can't get away.
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* ''Series/BarneyMiller'' manages to do this ''with the actual saying'', because the second part is usually left unsaid and so comes across as a NonSequitur:
-->'''Barney:''' ''(trying to get Levitt to stop overextending himself and take some time off)'' You know, all work and no play.
-->'''Levitt:''' ''(who's never heard the expression)'' ... Sir?
-->'''Barney:''' ''(very reluctantly and anticlimactically)'' ... Makes Jack a dull boy.
-->'''Levitt:''' ''(baffled)'' If you say so, sir.
-->'''Barney:''' ''(trying to get Levitt to stop overextending himself and take some time off)'' You know, all work and no play.
-->'''Levitt:''' ''(who's never heard the expression)'' ... Sir?
-->'''Barney:''' ''(very reluctantly and anticlimactically)'' ... Makes Jack a dull boy.
-->'''Levitt:''' ''(baffled)'' If you say so, sir.
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* Used in ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'':
-->'''Carey''': I'm dreaming...NO ONE PINCH ME!
-->'''Carey''': I'm dreaming...NO ONE PINCH ME!
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** There are two wolves fighting inside of you. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} You are a furry.]]
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* [Group you dislike]. [[CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem Can't live with them]].
** Can't live with them, can't kill them.
** Can't live without them, but we can try.
** Can't live with them, but thanks to [relevant technological/social advances] we don't need to.
** Can't live with them, can't kill them.
** Can't live without them, but we can try.
** Can't live with them, but thanks to [relevant technological/social advances] we don't need to.
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* Music/BiffyClyro has this in the pre-chorus of "Instant History": "[[WomanScorned Hell hath no fury like a]] human born."
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-->If at first you don't succeed. Oh, you better give up!
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-->If at first you don't succeed. Oh, succeed...oh, you better give up!
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* Joe Jitsu from ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' episode "The Casbah Express":
-->If at first you don't succeed. Oh, you better give up!
-->If at first you don't succeed. Oh, you better give up!
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'':
** As Carla puts it. "When in doubt... kill Diane."
** From Norm, there's "Women. Can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts."
** As Carla puts it. "When in doubt... kill Diane."
** From Norm, there's "Women. Can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts."
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* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'': When Crypto is about to fatally probe a government agent, he says "don't get mad... get ''sadistic.''"
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Related to the IceCreamKoan, but differs in that while the first part of the phrase is valid, the second part is clearly tacked on by the speaker. Often said by a SeeminglyProfoundFool in some of his more fauxlisophical moments. YouCantMakeAnOmelette and WhenLifeGivesYouLemons are common victims of this trope. Not to be confused with attempts to separate some {{Loaded Language}}'s face-value meaning from the subtext it has accumulated.
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Related to the IceCreamKoan, but differs in that while the first part of the phrase is valid, the second part is clearly tacked on by the speaker. Often said by a SeeminglyProfoundFool in some of his more fauxlisophical moments. YouCantMakeAnOmelette and WhenLifeGivesYouLemons are common victims of this trope. Not to be confused with attempts to separate some {{Loaded Language}}'s the face-value meaning meanings of LoadedWords and slogans from the subtext it has accumulated.
connotations with which they are loaded.
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Related to the IceCreamKoan, but differs in that while the first part of the phrase is valid, the second part is clearly tacked on by the speaker. Often said by a SeeminglyProfoundFool in some of his more fauxlisophical moments. YouCantMakeAnOmelette and WhenLifeGivesYouLemons are common victims of this trope.
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Related to the IceCreamKoan, but differs in that while the first part of the phrase is valid, the second part is clearly tacked on by the speaker. Often said by a SeeminglyProfoundFool in some of his more fauxlisophical moments. YouCantMakeAnOmelette and WhenLifeGivesYouLemons are common victims of this trope.
trope. Not to be confused with attempts to separate some {{Loaded Language}}'s face-value meaning from the subtext it has accumulated.
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* ''Series/Bewitched'':. It's like Aunt Hagatha always used to say, if at first you don't succeed, quit. ''(beat)''. [[DoubleSubversion I never did like Aunt Hagatha]].
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* ''Series/Bewitched'':. {{Series/Bewitched}}: It's like Aunt Hagatha always used to say, if at first you don't succeed, quit. ''(beat)''. [[DoubleSubversion I never did like Aunt Hagatha]].
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* ''Series: Bewitched''. It's like Aunt Hagatha always used to say, if at first you don't succeed, quit. ''(beat)''. [[DoubleSubversion I never did like Aunt Hagatha]].
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* ''Series: Bewitched''.''Series/Bewitched'':. It's like Aunt Hagatha always used to say, if at first you don't succeed, quit. ''(beat)''. [[DoubleSubversion I never did like Aunt Hagatha]].
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* ''Series: Bewitched''. It's like Aunt Hagatha always used to say, if at first you don't succeed, quit. ''(beat)''. [[DoubleSubversion I never did like Aunt Hagatha]].
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** There are two wolves fighting inside of you. You need medical help, there shouldn't be any wolves inside of you!
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* Creator/{{Marvel}} has gotten a lot of mileage from subverting WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility, in a rare case of a creator doing this with a saying ''they themselves'' popularized.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': [[SuperOCD Wasabi]] grimly states upon concluding that a bear is about to attack from a nearby bush in [[Recap/BigHero6TheSeriesS1E05MuiraharaWoods Muirahara Woods]] that this is how the team is going to die... "Not with a bang [[ShapedLikeItself but with a]] ''{{Bear|sAreBadNews}}''".
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': One of Tidus' famous {{Narm}}y lines is "I was out of the frying pan and into the freezer". This is because he was locked in a freezing-cold chamber of Baaj Temple with no fire to keep himself warm.
* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': Trying to get to safety in a submarine rapidly filling with water, Sissel comments at one point that they're "out of the water". FridgeBrilliance kicks in when one realizes that [[spoiler: it's no wonder that Sissel, a cat, would consider water more dangerous than fire]].
* ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': Trying to get to safety in a submarine rapidly filling with water, Sissel comments at one point that they're "out of the water". FridgeBrilliance kicks in when one realizes that [[spoiler: it's no wonder that Sissel, a cat, would consider water more dangerous than fire]].
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* From ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Arena'', Vraska gives us this insight into Golgari politics:
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingWildWorld'': Crazy Redd the fox runs a black market tent that requires a call-and-response password to get in (which he posts to you in advance). Some of them take this kind of form.
-->''As and you shall... be charged.''\\
''Cat's away... mice shop.''\\
''Head in sand... find something.''\\
''Talk is cheap... so is Redd.''\\
''The pen is mightier... and cheaper.''
-->''As and you shall... be charged.''\\
''Cat's away... mice shop.''\\
''Head in sand... find something.''\\
''Talk is cheap... so is Redd.''\\
''The pen is mightier... and cheaper.''
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* About 90% of Music/TheyMightBeGiants lyrics.
** From the song "Rhythm Section Want Ad": "Speak softly and drive a Sherman tank / Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank"
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* About 90% Music/TheyMightBeGiants: A number of Music/TheyMightBeGiants lyrics.
their songs feature [[http://tmbw.net/wiki/Oblique_Cliches_Or_Idiom oblique references to idioms and cliches]].
**From the song "Absolutely Bill's Mood": "I know monkey see, but monkey's dead"
** "Narrow Your Eyes": "They say love is blind / I don't think you're blind"
** "Rhythm Section Want Ad": "Speak softly and drive a Sherman tank / Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank"
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** "Narrow Your Eyes": "They say love is blind / I don't think you're blind"
** "Rhythm Section Want Ad": "Speak softly and drive a Sherman tank / Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank"
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* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', “Set a thief to catch a thief” is actually the version updated by the Thieves’ Guild of an older proverb that actually advocated a long and complicated trap to catch a thief.
** There's also “Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”
** There's also “Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”
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* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** “Set a thief to catch a thief” is actually the version updated by the Thieves’ Guild of an older proverb that actually advocated a long and complicated trap to catch a thief.
**There's also “Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”
** “Set a thief to catch a thief” is actually the version updated by the Thieves’ Guild of an older proverb that actually advocated a long and complicated trap to catch a thief.
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** In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Ankh-Morpork's pin-collecting fraternity have the saying "See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll have a pin".
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** In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', ''Literature/GoingPostal'', Ankh-Morpork's pin-collecting fraternity have the saying "See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll have a pin".
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* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'': Wise man say: Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.
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* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'': Wise man say: Forgiveness is divine, but [[ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree never pay full price for late pizza.pizza]].
