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* This is rather endemic in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''. Amalia uses metaphors and expressions based on plants all the time (later episodes show us that most [[PlantPeople Sadida]] are doing this). Likewise, Ruel's speech often alludes to money or wealth. Minor characters are also on it; Xav the Baker and his father Ratafouine are constantly referencing bread and baking. Even [[BigBad Nox]] isn't above making a few clocks or time-related quips.

* ''{{Deadpool}}'' supporting character Fenway managed to work a baseball metaphor into practically every sentence he spoke.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' gang always manages to work scientific metaphors into life, to the constant frustration of the token cast member of normal intellect, Penny. One notable one is SchrodingersCat, which becomes a [[RunningGag recurring theme]] and is the only scientific principle Penny can ever remember.

** As someone who transits from a military career to the civilian sector; suddenly you're being called to HR because one of your associates didn't like the "attitude" you had during a conversation - you hurt their feelings.

* In the ''KeroroGunso'' manga (at least in the English version), Keroro refers to Aki Hinata as "General Mom" frequently in early chapters.

* Dr. Minoru Kamiya has a penchant for this in Manga/YuYuHakusho - In English, he says "Pronounced dead!" when attacking Yusuke from behind. In Portuguese, during the fight with Yusuke, he says "Não vou usar nenhum instrumento para te fazer uma autópsia!" - In English, "I will use no instruments to dissect you!".

* Doctor Hourani, in ''Series/House'', does this in a hospital and to a co-worker (namely, well, House). Instead of saying "I must be crazy" or "I must be hallucinating", he says "I must be having a complex partial seizure...".

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Miss Brooks' diction is always precise. Mr. Boynton avoids slang terms, while Mr. Conklin is pompous on and off the job.

* In ''RanmaOneHalf'', professional chef Ukyo Kuonji uses -- in the English version -- "sugar", "honey", and other food names as intimacy markers. Not a very noticeable trait, but the fact remains that she (almost) never used "dear" or other such markers.

When a character in a certain profession isn't on the job, he's going to still use jargon from that profession, supposedly to let us know what he does for a living. Mafia guys will use "whacked" and the like, chefs will use culinary language, and so forth.

* Used as a plot point in ''TheTakingOfPelham123'' remake: Garber notices Ryder isn't a regular hijacker due to his use of financial terminology (such as referring to the hostages as "assets"). [[spoiler:Turns out his goal isn't taking the ransom money itself but profiting from the market crash caused by the suspicions of terrorism behind the hijacking.]]

* One of the main reasons TvTropesWillRuinYourLife.

* In an episode of ''TheWire'', a gangbanger talks on the phone about "capping his dawg's ass". The police bring him in on murder charges, only to realize that he was talking about putting down an actual dog.
* In ''SpinCity'', after it's revealed that one of the mayor's associates is, in fact, a mafioso, he mentions that he first suspected something when said associate invited the mayor to go fishing with, "Let's go whack some fish."

* In the first episode of ''TheTroop'', a student's vocational test suggested he'd become an accountant. The student used accounting terms while voicing his objections to this.

* Siuan Sanche in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' grew up a fisherwoman before becoming Aes Sedai, so she always uses fishing jargon and metaphors.

* In the ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}: Man of Steel'' Annual #5, (a "Legends of the Dead Earth" {{Elseworld}) the main character comes from an ocean planet, where he's a fisherman. Once he develops Superman-powers and starts flying through space and destroying Imperial starships single-handedly, he refers to himself as a minnow overpowering sharks.

* TheBigBangTheory gang always manages to work scientific metaphors into life, to the constant frustration of the token cast member of normal intellect, Penny. One notable one is SchrodingersCat, which becomes a [[RunningGag recurring theme]] and is the only scientific principle Penny can ever remember.

** And it's (probably) ''not even your job''…

* Anytime people from the same profession get together (even if they are retired), they're going to talk shop. Listening to such conversations can be an education in itself.
** Talking shop with someone not in your profession can also be quite illuminating, as you struggle to find ways to describe terms that, to you, are self describing in and of themselves.

** You know the old saying "Swear like a sailor"? It's completely true. Some retired Navy personnel retain and use some very, ah, colorful and inventive profanities when injured, angry, or frustrated.

Contrast with SpySpeak. TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary could be considered a subtrope.

Contrast with SpySpeak. TVTropesWillRuinYourLife could be considered a subtrope.

* This is OlderThanRadio, as it dates back at least to Dickens' character, Mr. Lilyvick, in ''Nicholas Nickleby'', a water-rate collector who uses references to pipes, taps etc. in his "normal" conversation.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' villains the Trigger Twins talk almost exclusively like characters from a [[TheWestern Western]] movie.