Hold Your Hippogriffs/Playing With

Basic Trope: Changing an everyday phrase or proverb to make it sound older and/or more whimsical.
 * Straight: A few characters in a Fantastical Fantasy Book say, "What the Hades ?" or "I'm so hungry I could eat a pegasus ."
 * Exaggerated: Literally every sentence in the Fantastical Fantasy Book is a Mythology-Based Incredibly Lame Pun on cliches.
 * Downplayed: The phrase "What the Hades" shows up once, and only once, in the entire series.
 * Justified: People actually talk like that in the FFB universe, due to not knowing what Hell or horses are.
 * Inverted: The mythical creatures use human related puns.
 * Subverted: Other characters say "What the Hell?" frequently...
 * Double Subverted: Only to be corrected by their peers.
 * Parodied: We get people actually eating pegasi and hold hippogriffs.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: They use modern slang with no puns whatsoever.
 * Enforced: "We can't have normal slang in Fantastical Fantasy Book! make it sound, you know, more older and stuff!"
 * Lampshaded: "Why can't we just say 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.'?"
 * Invoked: A character only uses "So hungry I could eat a pegasus" when other people are eating pegasi.
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: Remember those characters we mentioned that use the actual phrase? They tell the people correcting them "Shut up, I know what I'm talking about!"
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: "Yeah, I have to admit it's a little cheesy how Fantastical Fantasy Book use all those mythology-based cliches, isn't it?"

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