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== D ==
* "Damn, I'm good."
* "... Dead to me."
** This phrase usually has "you're" or some sort of noun and "is" before it.
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* "Get off my lawn!" Battle cry of bitter and cantankerous old men and women. Increasingly used ironically by characters and people realizing they're older than they thought.
* "Get the hell out of there!" The nuke's about to go off, what are you doing standing around?! Get the hell out of there!
* "Gives a whole new meaning to X." A flag that some formerly innocent expression has now become a [[Double Entendre]] thanks to someone's actions.
* "God, I missed you."
* "Good luck... you'll need it."
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* "How do I know you'll keep your word?" (Alternately, "How do we know he'll keep his word?") The obvious question the hero(es) should be asking (and often do) in a [[Hostage for McGuffin]] or similar situation. The most common response is more or less equivalent to the one Khan gave in ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'': "Oh, I've given you no word to keep, Admiral. In my judgment, you simply have no alternative." "What choice do we have?", or "You don't" are alternate versions. In dramatic terms, this means that the hero now has karmic permission to use any kind of trickery on the villain necessary to regain the advantage.
* "How do you play this game, then?" Part of [[The Magic Poker Equation]]. As stated in ''[[Discworld|Witches Abroad]]'' "When an obvious innocent sits down with three experienced card sharpers and says 'How do you play this game, then?', someone is about to be shaken down until their teeth fall out." It also works with pool.
* "How hard can it be?" and/or "What could possibly go wrong?": Whenever a character comments on the apparent easiness of a task, it [[Tempting Fate|almost invariably]] turns out to be stunningly difficult. Suddenly things as simple as buying milk become epic quests or even life-or-death experiences. See all of the tropes in [[Tempting Fate]], such as [[Retirony]].
** Sometimes used satirically after listing a series of incredibly difficult and/or obviously fatal tasks. "We just have to sneak into a guarded fortress at noon, find the one person we're looking for, and convince them to betray the love of their life. How hard can it be?" Occasionally this is not intended satirically, to illustrate that the speaker is either clueless, arrogant to the point of insanity, or [[Just That Good]].
** Often the [[Deadpan Snarker]] or the [[Literal
* "How you holding up?": After some disaster or other bad thing has befallen a character. Done to death in ''[[Smallville]]''.
* "Hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up and..."
** There's no record of any carnival talker (''not'' "barker") ever yelling "Hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up!" The "cant" was always ''much'' more elaborate, which is part of why the talker was the best-paid man on the lot.
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* "I don't think, I ''know''." "I don't think you know, either."
* "I eat X for breakfast!" A common type of [[Badass Boast]].
* "If he could do it, then so can I!"
* "I know a guy." Or sometimes, "I know a guy who knows a guy."
* "If these walls could talk...": Your stock phrase for an [[Evidence Scavenger Hunt]]. [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=15&story=7543&page=4&sort=&limit=all Here's a straight use], from ''[[CSI]]''.
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* "I ''heard'' that!" "You were ''supposed'' to!"
* "I hope I'm wrong, because otherwise..." aaaaand.....cut to a different scene. Note that the thing-too-terrible-to-contemplate that is the subject of this line always, ''always'' happens. See also [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]].
* "I knew that." No they didn't.
* "''I'' know that, and ''you'' know that, but ''he'' doesn't know that."
* "I know what is best for you." Usually the one who says it is misinformed. If they're not misinformed, they're often malevolent.
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* "My, my, what have we here?" Usually said by older good characters, or occasionally the villain from afar.
* "My patience is growing thin." Spoken by many an [[Evil Overlord]] after repeated attempts to do whatever have proven futile.
* "My work here is done."
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* "... of the ____shire Smiths." That is, the old-money ones. Sometimes shortened to "... of ''those'' Smiths."
* "Oh no! Not [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]! Anything but [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]!"
** "[[Robert McKimson|Nnnoot the Thiiinnkeeeeeer!]]"
** "[[Kentucky Fried Movie|No! Not Detroit]]"
** From ''[[Megamind]]'': "You know the drill." "Not the drill!"
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* "Oh no... they got to you too!" Mostly used by conspiracy theorists referring to skeptics, or friends/family who are no longer as patient or understanding as they used to be.
* "Oh, please, Judge -- my Tony, he's a good boy." The mobster's mother pleads for leniency for her child. Most often seen in 1930s and 40s dramas, more often parodied today.
* "Oh ''yes'', ''well done''." Said in a mocking tone. Occasionally accompanied by [[Sarcastic Clapping]].
* "Okay...okay, okay, okay, okay..." While freaking out as a [[Survival Mantra]].
* "O''kay'' then..." Standard response to [[Too Much Information]], [[Digging Yourself Deeper]], [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]] and other tropes of that ilk, generally indicates a [[Sarcasm Failure]].
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* "Remember where we parked." Usually a comedic phrase that either follows parking the automobile/ship in a crowded or unusual spot.
* "Rest in Pieces". Back when this joke was used for the first time, it might be amusing. It's not amusing [[Dead Horse Trope|when you hear it millions of times]], though.
* "Right, let's do this."
* "Rules are meant to be broken."
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** Nicely subverted in the reboot of ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'', in which Spock starts one of these and Kirk cuts him off -- to assure him the plan's going to work.
* "That was too close.": Spoken just after a near miss by a projectile, a last-second disarming of a bomb, etc. Sometimes seen in a two-character variation, as "That was close." "Yeah, a little ''too'' close."
* "That went well.": Sentence used to break the appalled hush after something goes terribly wrong.
** A common subversion involves the apparent disaster to turn out to be a good thing after all -- thus making the sarcastic remark true.
** ''[[Firefly]]'' only used it once, but it was spoken by a naked man marooned in the middle of the desert. What's ''really'' funny is that he meant it!
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'''House''': There is a 'me', though...if you jumble it up a bit. }}
** This troper prefers, "Then why is there an 'I' in 'partnership?" He's never had the opportunity to use it though.
* "There's something odd about that guy." Usually said when a bystander, witness, or ally seems legit, but turns out to be [[The Mole]] or otherwise sitting on a whopper of a secret.
* "There's something you don't see every day..." Usually said by someone seeing something outrageous or crazy going on.
* "There's something you should know..." Usually said by character A to character B when character B is about to do something (or has just done something) that would turn out to be immoral or unwise if character B had the information that character A has. Or if Character A is about to dump a [[Reveal]] on B that makes their situation more complicated.
* "The very idea!" Shocked utterance of a [[Grande Dame]] or one who fancies herself such, often coupled with "Well I never!"
* "Things can't get any worse." Things will always get worse. See [[Tempting Fate]], [[Rock Bottom]], and [[Finagle's Law]].
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* "We [[Dawn Attack|attack at dawn]]!"
* "We can't take that chance!" Indicates when [[The Federation]] ([[Hostage for Macguffin|or even the Hero]]) all-but-folds in the face of the huge demands of the villain [[Prove I Am Not Bluffing|backed by force]].
* "We didn't start this fight, but we're gonna finish it."
* "We do not negotiate with terrorists". When this line is uttered, expect negotiation with terrorists to follow fairly quickly.
** Although not in ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]''.
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** ''On The Town'' has the comic duet "Come Up To My Place."
** Used in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' in homosexual contexts.
* "Who turned out the lights?" A character has just been blinded, often by a bucket landing on his head.
** 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]]''.
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* "Yes, I did it, and I'm glad!" Standard line in the [[Motive Rant]], often used by the faithless wife confessing to her husband's murder.
* "...yes? no?" [[Funny Foreigner|Funny Foreigners]] like to turn declarative sentences into questions by appending this.
* "You ARE the One!" The usual statement when the most adamant doubter of the [[The Chosen One]] is finally convinced.
* "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy." Almost any other noun can take the place of "country" in order to fit this to the current context.
* "You can't do this!" "I just did!"
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