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• I stumbled upon the site the other day, when I was looking up the origins of the "Im not an X, but I play one on TV" snowclone.
• Suddenly snowclone hunters were documenting media usages suggesting that, in space, no one can hear you belch, bitch, blog, speak, squeak or suck.
• Regular readers learned there first about snowclones, the basic building blocks of cliches, like "X is the new Y" or "you don't need a degree in A to do B."
• If so, you're being snowed under by snowclones — a category of fill-in-the-blank cliché identified by linguists.
• When you read phrases like these in a newspaper, you've stumbled across a particular type of cliché: the snowclone.