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* PlayedWith in the Music/TaylorSwift song "All Too Well": The ex-boyfriend mails back everything ''except'' the most personal item, a scarf that got left at his place.

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* Lampshaded in ''SixFeetUnder'', as seen in the page quote.

* In the ''Film/FantasticFour'' movie, Ben Grimm's fiancee silently indicates that she can't love a seven-foot-tall mound of sentient orange rock by taking off the engagement ring he gave her and setting it on the pavement before walking away. To further twist the knife, Grimm's fingers are now so thick that he can't even pick up the discarded ring.

--> “Fine. You know what, ''fine.'' Here, just, see all this goddamn tea you gave me? Well you can take it back. Here, fish it out of the harbor for all I care.”

* PlayedWith in the Music/TaylorSwift song "22": The ex-boyfriend mails back everything ''except'' the most personal item, a scarf that got left at his place.

* A Creator/PeterDavid ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel has a friendly alien woman give a gift of a handmaiden to Wesley Crusher. She's enthusiastic and he's a gentleman. Naturally he can't give back the gift without inciting an incident. Fortunately, he's allowed to re-gift her.

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* An interesting variant is found in the short story ''[[http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/howells/editha.htm Editha]]'', by William Dean Howells. The title character returns her engagement ring, along with every other gift he ever gave her, to her fiance before he goes off to war. Her intentions are good, if overdramatic; she tells him she wants him to love their country first, even before herself. He's killed in action, and she finds out from his mother that her act basically stripped him of the will to live.

* A Creator/PeterDavid Franchise/StarTrek novel has a friendly alien woman give a gift of a handmaiden to Wesley Crusher. She's enthusiastic and he's a gentleman. Naturally he can't give back the gift without inciting an incident. Fortunately, he's allowed to re-gift her.

* See the article quote. Lampshaded in ''Six Feet Under''. During an argument with Brenda, Nate takes his engagement ring off. Brenda sees this and responds with "Don't you throw that ring at me. It's such a cliché, I'll barf."
** And he ''throws it!''
*** "There. Barf."

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* In ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella'', the last thing Rosabella does for Tony before leaving him is handing him back the amethyst tie-pin which he left her as a tip when she was working as a waitress and he first saw her. When they reconcile by doing a RelationshipReboot, he gives it to
her again, this time in person.

-->'''Brenda''': Don't you throw that ring at me. It's such a cliché, I'll barf.
-->'''Nate''' *throws it*: There. Barf.

* In ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella'', the last thing Rosabella does for Tony before leaving him is handing him back the amethyst tie-pin which he left her as a tip when she was working as a waitress and he first saw her. When they reconcile by doing a RelationshipReboot, he gives it to her again, this time in person.

* In Tibetan culture, returning a gift is a great insult. This is portrayed in the movie ''SevenYearsInTibet'', where the main character returns a gifted jacket on purpose, because he wanted to make clear they ''really'' weren't friends anymore.

-->-- Main/{{SixFeetUnder}}, "I'll Take You"

* A PeterDavid Franchise/StarTrek novel has a friendly alien woman give a gift of a handmaiden to Wesley Crusher. She's enthusiastic and he's a gentleman. Naturally he can't give back the gift without inciting an incident. Fortunately, he's allowed to re-gift her.

* See the article quote. Lampshaded in ''{{Six Feet Under}}''. During an argument with Brenda, Nate takes his engagement ring off. Brenda sees this and responds with "Don't you throw that ring at me. It's such a cliché, I'll barf."

* Mentioned in the ''Music/HermansHermits'' post-breakup song "Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter"

* The song "[[PrettyInMink Take Back Your Mink]]" from ''GuysAndDolls'' inspired the trope name.
* In the opera ''{{Carmen}}'', the last thing Carmen does before Don Jose stabs her to death is remove a ring he gave her and throw it at his feet.

* In ''{{The Most Happy Fella}}'', the last thing Rosabella does for Tony before leaving him is handing him back the amethyst tie-pin which he left her as a tip when she was working as a waitress and he first saw her. when they reconcile by doing a RelationshipReboot, he gives it to her once again.

* See the article quote. Brilliantly lampshaded in ''{{Six Feet Under}}''. During an argument with Brenda, Nate takes his engagement ring off. Brenda sees this and responds with "Don't you throw that ring at me. It's such a cliché, I'll barf."

* In ''TheKingAndI'', after Anna's tragic confrontation with the King, she tells the Kralahome that she will be on the next boat leaving UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}, takes off the ring which the King not long before the confrontation had insisted she put on, and tells the Kralahome to return it to him. The script calls this "the final humiliation for his King to suffer."

* In a reversal and inversion of this trope, during the GrandFinale of ''{{MASH}}'', Charles demands that Margaret return to him a book that he gave her as a present. She grudgingly obliges, and at their final farewell, he returns the book to her, this time with a heart-felt message written inside.

* A PeterDavid StarTrek novel has a friendly alien woman give a gift of a handmaiden to Wesley Crusher. She's enthusiastic and he's a gentleman. Naturally he can't give back the gift without inciting an incident. Fortunately, he's allowed to re-gift her.

* A Peter David Star Trek novel has a friendly alien woman give a gift of a handmaiden to Wesley Crusher. She's enthusiastic and he's a gentleman. Naturally he can't give back the gift without inciting an incident. Fortunately, he's allowed to re-gift her.

* Mentioned in the ''Herman's Hermits'' post-breakup song "Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter"

* Diana Villiers does this to Stephen in one of the ''{{Aubrey-Maturin}}'' novels; when he receives the letter in which she breaks their engagement, he can feel the ring inside the envelope before he even reads the message.

-->'''Nate''' *throws it*: "There. Barf."
-->-- Main/{{SixFeetUnder}}, '''"I'll Take You"'''

When a character breaking up with someone deliberately returns what had been a personal gift, typically a ring. A good way to rub salt in the wound, even when done politely.

* Brilliantly lampshaded in ''{{Six Feet Under}}''. During an argument with Brenda, Nate takes his engagement ring off. Brenda sees this and responds with "Don't you throw that ring at me. It's such a cliché, I'll barf."

* A brilliant lampshading occurs in ''{{Six Feet Under}}''. During an argument with Brenda, Nate takes his engagement ring off. Brenda sees this and responds with "Don't you throw that ring at me. It's such a cliché, I'll barf".

* In ''{{Watchmen}}'', when Janey Slater breaks up with Dr. Manhattan, she throws the pair of earrings he gave her at him.

* In ''AChristmasCarol'', IIRC, Scrooge's fiancee breaks up with him by returning his ring and saying, "Since you love nothing so much as gold, you should be pleased to have it back."

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