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Things from film and tv that become common parlance 15:40 - Jan 15 with 509 viewsDubtractor

Every now and then something from film or tv, books too, becomes such a perfect phrase to use in everyday language that it just becomes the go to reference.

Two obvious examples for me being the phrase groundhog day, the use of Trigger's broom for something repaired many times.

What other examples of this do we have?

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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:48 - Jan 15 with 451 viewsDarkBrandon

A sliding doors moment.

Or was that a saying before the film?
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:49 - Jan 15 with 447 viewsSouthBucksBlue

Catch 22
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:55 - Jan 15 with 419 viewsMattinLondon

Groundhog Day.

Edit, I didn’t read your post properly and you had included Groundhog Day.

Groundhog Day.
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:56 - Jan 15 with 412 viewsDubtractor

Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:48 - Jan 15 by DarkBrandon

A sliding doors moment.

Or was that a saying before the film?


I had to check, but it did originate from the film.

The fact I needed to check makes it a perfect example!

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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:57 - Jan 15 with 408 viewstazdac

Another one from Trigger used regularly is “can’t park there Dave!” After seeing him into a parking space. Not sure if this was used much before then. :o)
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:59 - Jan 15 with 392 viewsMattinLondon

Does 1984 count? People use the book title whenever anything that supposedly hinders civil liberties is in the news.

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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:00 - Jan 15 with 379 viewstazdac

Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:57 - Jan 15 by tazdac

Another one from Trigger used regularly is “can’t park there Dave!” After seeing him into a parking space. Not sure if this was used much before then. :o)


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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:02 - Jan 15 with 362 viewsiamatractorboy

Shakespeare will be full of them.
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:05 - Jan 15 with 348 viewsRadioOrwell

Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 15:57 - Jan 15 by tazdac

Another one from Trigger used regularly is “can’t park there Dave!” After seeing him into a parking space. Not sure if this was used much before then. :o)


That's a thing ?
Never heard of it before.
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:18 - Jan 15 with 308 viewsITFC_Forever

Plenty from Only Fools & Horses I would think.

In our office, it is not acceptable to leave for lunch / go home for the day without saying "bonjour".

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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:27 - Jan 15 with 255 viewsiamatractorboy

Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:05 - Jan 15 by RadioOrwell

That's a thing ?
Never heard of it before.


Surely the most famous OFAH ones are thing like 'lovely jubbly' or 'plonker' (was that original to OFAH?).
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:28 - Jan 15 with 251 viewsWhos_blue

"That's handy 'arry".

From an advert. The rest of the phrase was "stick it in the oven", but the first bit is commonly used these days.

Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.

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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:33 - Jan 15 with 231 viewsEJP

Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:18 - Jan 15 by ITFC_Forever

Plenty from Only Fools & Horses I would think.

In our office, it is not acceptable to leave for lunch / go home for the day without saying "bonjour".


The (US) Office has caused the excessive use of "That's what she said ...".
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:39 - Jan 15 with 212 viewsBluemer

It does what it says on the tin
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:54 - Jan 15 with 154 viewsSitfcB

Bang and the dirt has gone.

Washing machines live longer with Calgon.

Doh!

Hi everybody.
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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 17:05 - Jan 15 with 105 viewsCheltenham_Blue

Do we count Jack Parlance?

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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 17:19 - Jan 15 with 71 viewsSitfcB

Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:27 - Jan 15 by iamatractorboy

Surely the most famous OFAH ones are thing like 'lovely jubbly' or 'plonker' (was that original to OFAH?).


Mange tout, mange tout.

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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 17:32 - Jan 15 with 49 viewshoppy

Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:05 - Jan 15 by RadioOrwell

That's a thing ?
Never heard of it before.


Often hear the jovial phrase "You can't park there, mate!", which I assume possibly derived from the 'Dave' one?

In fact, I had it in mind on two occasions today.
Firstly (and not sure if this makes me a bad person or not), but I saw a traffic warden talking to a lady in a wheelchair, and I had visions of him saying to her "you can't park there, mate"..

Second occasion, I popped into Morrisons on Sproughton Road, and there was a car with it's hazard lights on, parked diagonally to a space - turns out, the driver had seemingly been unaware of one of the parking bollards and proceeded over the top of it, effectively skewering his car on it... so once again, the same phrase came to mind.

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Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 17:42 - Jan 15 with 17 viewsCheltenham_Blue

Things from film and tv that become common parlance on 16:00 - Jan 15 by tazdac



Fun Fact:

The 'Gate 11' in the background there is one of the gates in to/out of Ashton Gate (The old one)
Nelson Mandela house is just around the corner.

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