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Phrase abuser

A person who frequently uses phrases and quotes to emphysize a point but usually gets them wrong.
Bob: I went to pick up some milk yesterday at the market and while I was down there I remembered to get some batteries for my new super awesome robot dog
Ted: Ahh, two birds one cone
Bob: You gaddem phrase abuser
by Peter Bob May 1, 2009
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riding a phrase

when someone uses someone else's answer that they have heard before to a question they were asked, especially if it was a smart/witty answer.
john: "so how are things working out for you with jane?"
bill: "we're fine as two fine things on table."

after a few minutes.

kurt: "how are the kids?"
bill: "they're fine as two fine things on a table."
kurt: "hey! bill said the same thing to me earlier. don't go riding a phrase, bill."
by dvora levite April 27, 2010
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Catch and Release Phrase

To pick up and use a new catch phrase, only to abandon it when it becomes popular.
Everytime I used to hear Blue Oyster Cult on the radio I would yell "More Cowbell!!" until I heard Biff in acounting do the same. Then I knew it was time for me to make "More Cowbell!!" a Catch and Release Phrase and move on.
by flyhaed August 16, 2013
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phrase-high

To gain incredible and unexplainable joy when hearing or saying a certain phrase.
These clooooooooooothes, these clooooothes!Making me phrase-high.
by pinkninja68 December 9, 2008
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three-phrase current

Sinewave-formed electricity dat successively produces a different "word sound" --- i.e., "hum", "buzz", "drone", "whine", etc. --- a third of da time.
Usually da power-lines are fairly quiet in dry weather, but rain or drizzle often really brings out da "three-phrase current" status of said slim silvery wires!
by QuacksO August 22, 2022
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silly phrase

something like ib jib blop lop nop or dot dot nose smile
by peprallysarenoisyerthendrums September 6, 2025
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welp, this is it (phrase)

1). showing someone else something you have previously referred to

2). acceptance that you are near an end of something you have lost control over

3). A phrase used before stating something that will happen when something else happens
1). welp, this is it (phrase), the rock you so desperately wanted to see
2). welp, this is it (phrase); we are going to die huh?
3). welp, this is it (phrase), just one more enemy before the final boss
by I don't eat trucks November 6, 2022
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