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Basic Trope: A Stock Phrase, rooted in the unknown, described in hyperbole.

• Played Straight: "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
• Subverted: "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an eggroll."
• Inverted: "A fact established in certainty pronounced in obviousness."
• Averted: "This riddle is quite a mysterious enigma."
• Exaggerated: "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma shrouded in secrecy buried in a brainteaser coded in a cryptogram."
• Parodied:
  • "A conundrum guarded by The Men in Black hidden among a pack of chupacabras."
  • "...Like some sort of conundrum turducken..."
• Justified: The phrase is uttered in a Biopic about Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill.
• Enforced: The producer of a mystery story is also a history buff or just really likes the phrase and wants the work's creators to use it.
• Discussed:

Alice: You're in over your head, Bob. This case is too big for you to solve. 'Bob: Oh really, is this supposed to be like one of those riddles wrapped in mysteries inside enigmas'? Alice: In a word, yes.

• Conversed:

Alice: Next, Adam West is going to say that The Riddler has left him and Robin "another one of his criminal conundrums... wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Bob: Yeah, he would totally say that!

• Lampshaded:

Alice: It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Bob: Ha, a Winston Churchill quote reference. Nice!

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