Other Stock Phrases: Difference between revisions

* "Clean up on aisle five."

** "[[Dead Rising|Clean up! Register six!]]"

* "Come on, just live a little!"

* [[Dastardly Whiplash|"Curses! Foiled again!"]]

* An emphasized "had" (so as to mean the past tense of "have"): Without saying so many words, a character is disappointed say, that a villain he was chasing somehow got away when he was so confident that, well, he ''had'' him (think of Arnold Schwarzenegger complaining to a horse in a scene from ''True Lies'' after it refuses to chase a baddie who's just jumped across a street, airborne, on a motorcycle).

** An emphasized "was" appears in the original ''[[Casino Royale (Literature)|Casino Royale]]'' novel -- it's virtually the last line of the book and is used by Bond when he's informing his superiors of Vesper Lynd's suicide and the fact she was a double.

* "Hang on!" "To what?!"

* "Has anyone ever told you..."

* "I almost feel sorry for him. ''Almost''." Speaking about a nasty fate that the subject very much deserves.

* "I am a man of my word."

* "I AM ''NOT'' SHOUTING!"

* "I blame X." Everyone knows it was your fault, but you want to say something funny in a last ditch effort to take the blame off of you.

* "It was all just a huge [[Poor Communication Kills|misunderstanding]]." Openly uttered at the very end of cliche sitcoms. See [[Three Is Company]].

* "I've done it before and I can do it again!"

* "I was afraid you were gonna say that."

* "I was ''this'' close" (to achieving something): with the "this" accompanied by the appropriate one hand gesture. Without the hand gesture "this" is changed to "so". Either way, the character knows almost doesn't count, and lets others know it. Made famous by ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'', where it took the form "Missed it by ''that much''". (The trope [[Missed Him By That Much]] is related [[In Name Only]].)

== K ==

* "Kill me! Go ahead, do it!" says the villain, and as always, the hero will rescue them from the ledge/put down the weapon without fail.

 

 

* "Not where, when." Said by one time traveler after the less experienced companion asks "Where are we?"

* "Now if you will excuse me, I have a <noun> to <verb>!"

* "Nobody said it would be easy".

 

** In ''Key Largo'', after a spate of this line being uttered, one character mentions "I'm the electrician."

** Common in [[Hanna-Barbera]] cartoons, especially ''[[The Flintstones]]''.

* "Who wants to know?" The classic response of the [[Private Detective]] or [[First-Person Smartass]] to being asked if they're themselves. Frequently, the character asking the speaker is a [[Mook]] of the [[Big Bad]].

* "Why am I [[Surrounded By Idiots]]?!": Said by the [[Big Bad]] after displays of particular incompetence by his minions.

* "You know me better than that." "I thought I did." The most common exchange in a [[You Know What You Did]] plot.

* "You look different." Usually said after a character has just gone through rapid [[Character Development]].

* "You may have won this time..."

* "You never write, you never call." ...So I'm complaining about it face-to-face.

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