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Contrast with [[Spy Speak]].

 

* Sanji of ''[[One Piece]]'' frequently uses allusions to food when he's [[Calling Your Attacks|calling his attacks]]. This is more obvious in the English dub, but the Japanese has a few food phrases too.

** In the Viz translation of the manga, people tend to use pirate slang like "swabbie" fairly often.

* Tyranno in the English dub of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' refers to his friends by army ranks, the school as a base of operations, and his dorm room as HQ. He also uses military slang at every opportunity. (In the original Japanese, he was a dinosaur-themed duelist with a [[Verbal Tic]]).

* In the ''[[Keroro Gunso]]'' manga (at least in the English version), Keroro refers to Aki Hinata as "General Mom" frequently in early chapters.

** In Portuguese, she used "Você tá frito comigo" once - this would literally mean "You're fried with (by fighting against) me". "You're toast!" would be a more natural (thus better) translation, though.

* Dr. Minoru Kamiya has a penchant for this in [[Yu Yu Hakusho]] - In English, he says "Pronounced dead!" when attacking Yusuke from behind. In Portuguese, during the fight with Yusuke, he says "Não vou usar nenhum instrumento para te fazer uma autópsia!" - In English, "I will use no instruments to dissect you!".

 

* ''[[Deadpool]]'' supporting character Fenway managed to work a baseball metaphor into practically every sentence he spoke.

* ''[[Batman]]'' villains the Trigger Twins talk almost exclusively like characters from a [[The Western|Western]] movie.

 

* Siuan Sanche in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' grew up a fisherwoman before becoming Aes Sedai, so she always uses fishing jargon and metaphors.

 

* Near the end of an episode of ''[[The Sopranos]]'', Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy. Real wet work." The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking someone to fix his burst water heater.

* In an episode of ''[[The Wire]]'', a gangbanger talks on the phone about "capping his dawg's ass". The police bring him in on murder charges, only to realize that he was talking about putting down an actual dog.

* In the first episode of ''[[The Troop]]'', a student's vocational test suggested he'd become an accountant. The student used accounting terms while voicing his objections to this.

 

* Practically every example in [[Wrestling Doesn't Pay]] uses this.

 

* Nate Logan from the ''[[SSX]]'' series, a cornfed ranch hand from Colorado, often says things like "Durn horse threw a shoe!" after a wipeout.

 

'''Homestar:''' Coach! That's your answer for everything! }}

** Later inverted in "No Hands On Deck!" Bubs suggests that once Homestar's deck is complete, they can hang out on it drinking melonade.

'''Bubs:''' And I like to dance! }}

 

 

* The Mafia men of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' embody this trope. Fat Tony went so far as to say his wife was "whacked by natural causes". There was also a subversion in the same episode, as Tony asked Legs to "hot-sync" his PalmPilot, and Legs thought he meant to shoot it.

** And the Sea Captain puts everything into nautical terms.

* Hermes Conrad of ''[[Futurama]]'' infuses his everyday language with references to bureaucracy. He also throws in semi-fabricated Jamaican idioms.

* This is rather endemic in ''[[Wakfu]]''. Amalia uses metaphors and expressions based on plants all the time (later episodes show us that most [[Plant People|Sadida]] are doing this). Likewise, Ruel's speech often alludes to money or wealth. Minor characters are also on it; Xav the Baker and his father Ratafouine are constantly referencing bread and baking. Even [[Big Bad|Nox]] isn't above making a few clocks or time-related quips.

* Tom Tucker in ''[[Family Guy]]'' still speaks like a news reporter even while not reporting the news.

 

* One of the main reasons [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]].

** And it's (probably) ''not even your job''…

* Very true in the military. It's not the bathroom, it's the "latrine" or "head." It's not the floor, it's the "deck."

** You know the old saying "Swear like a sailor"? It's completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and use some very, ah, colorful and inventive profanities when injured, angry, or frustrated.

 

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