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** Another Shakespeare example: "She Phebes me", from ''[[As You Like It]]''.
* From one of the [[Dinotopia]] books, any instance of [[Aint No Rule]] or [[Loophole Abuse]] is referred to as "Pulling an Andrew", after said Andrew wins an obstacle course race against a ''far'' more athletic dinosaur by simple virtue of ignoring the obstacles and running down the straightaway between the courses.
* [[The Dresden Files|Jim Butcher]] says on [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811102031/http://www.cipher-wotr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=348 this page] about writing the middle of a novel: "It lurks between the beginning of your book and the exciting conclusion, and its mission in life is to [[The Neverending Story (film)|Atreyu you right down into the yucky, mucky mire]] in order to prevent you from ever actually finishing."
** For the unfamiliar, the mire was a swamp in the middle of the film that would suck in and trap anyone like a tar pit unless they had a certain frame of mind.
** Never minding the number of times that Harry Dresden himself does this in the novels. Like the time he tosses a stake to Inari and tells her to "make like Buffy."
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