Monday, September 25, 2023

Sep 25 2023 - Never Say Never

 

What about these expressions with repeated words:

  • Tut tut.
  • Now now.
  • Knock knock.
  • Chop chop.
  • Hear hear.
  • Aye aye.
  • There there.
  • So-so.
  • Fifty-fifty
  • Well well
Then it is really complicated - 29 must-know examples of repetition in literature HERE. This article heads into poetry and literature with all kinds of literary devices.  Anadiplosis:  that's when the last word of a clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the next one:  

Example: "Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hatred; hatred leads to conflict; conflict leads to suffering." — Yoda, in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

And there are 28 more of these.  That expression that started this was not first coined by Charles Dickens in Pickwick Papers 1837, although it is attributed to it. That's according to Idiom Origins.

Today's bit of grunge makes me think of "up in smoke".

 
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