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A [[Stock Phrase]], or rather, a [[Stock Phrase]] Template. A character scornfully dismisses a warning or advice for restraint by repeating the word that represents the advice, then the same word with its beginning replaced with "schm-". "Safety, schmafety!" "Rules, schmules!"
 
[[The Other Wiki]] tells us the actual name for this is [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Schm |Shm-reduplication]] and it's, unsurprisingly, of [[Yiddish As a Second Language|Yiddish]] origin.
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== [[This Very Wiki]] ==
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]
* [[Strategy Schmategy]]
* [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Word Schmord]]
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[[Category:Sublime Rhyme]]
[[Category:Word Schmord]]
[[Category:Trope]]
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