Arnold Zwicky's Blog

Today’s Zippy:

A startling example of the snowclone The New Y (first discussed on Language Log in 2004, here; entered in the snowclone database in 2007, here; and treated many times on LLog over the years). I long ago stopped collecting examples — there are far too many of them — but every once in a while I come across a striking instance, like “Morbid is the new cute”.

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