Timeline for What is the term for paraphrasing an idiom (for humorous effect)?
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| Nov 17, 2016 at 13:05 | answer | added | angelxaces | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 22:30 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Moon in 'Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach' lists the 'fulldeckism' (one series of snowclones) 'three fish short of a lawnmower' as what could be interpreted as 'fixed expression / idiom' subclass [FEIs allowing] variation subclass 'free realisation' subclass 'surrealism'. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 21:57 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @cobaltduck People who live in glass houses shouldn't. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 17:33 | comment | added | cobaltduck | If anyone is thinking of down-voting this, just remember that homo sapiens who reside in vitreous accommodations should refrain from morbid acts of antidisestablishmentarianism via igneous projectile discharge. | |
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