History Main / TheCatchPhraseCatchesOn

* For a while, Jim Carrey movies tried to invoke this with their {{Catch Phrase}}s... "[[Film/TheMask Somebody stop me!]]" "[[Film/AceVentura Alrighty then!]]" etc.

* Some people use the term "ear-muffs" from ''OldSchool'' to instruct someone to cover their ears.

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', which typifies this trope like something that typifies a trope... [[BuffySpeak a lot]].

** Similarly, Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe for German. Many sayings and idioms can be traced back directly to his works, most famously {{Faust}}.

* Ladies and gentlemen, I give you [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_first_attested_in_Chaucer a list of words invented by Chaucer]].

* ‘’Series/BrooklynNine-Nine’’

* ''TopGear''

* For a while in the 1940s, people took to referring to the telephone as the Ameche after Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in a movie.

* TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary. Give it time and it will ruin that of your peers as well.

* The phrase "Everything's Coming Up Roses" was coined by Creator/StephenSondheim for the musical {{Theatre/Gypsy}}. He said in an interview "The point was to [coin] a phrase that sounded as if it had been in the language for years but was in fact invented for the show." It has since become common parlance.

* And if the Bible didn't coin it, there's a good chance [[TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Shakespeare did]]. Bernard Levin once wrote [[http://inside.mines.edu/~jamcneil/levinquote.html a piece]] with multiple variants on "If you say [common phrase], you are quoting Shakespeare". Although [[https://www.facebook.com/ShakespearesGlobe/posts/10152484054115774 others disagree]].

** ResistanceIsFutile. (They popularized it, but the phrase dates back at least to CoolHandLuke.)

** In modern casual language, it's mostly used as "to understand something intuitively". A common example is that when learning a new language, you haven't "grokked" it until incorrect grammar (or syntax, in the case of programming languages) sounds 'off' to you.

** Considering he was not just "a linguist" but an associate editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (he also wrote a substantial portion of the "W" volume, including the entry on "walrus", on which, TheOtherWiki says, "he struggled mightily"), it makes a lot of sense. (And appropriately enough, "hobbit" is now in the OED.)

* The term "waldo", an informal name for remote manipulator devices, comes from a 1942 short story of the same name by Creator/RobertAHeinlein.

* Rush Limbaugh coined the word [[GodwinsLaw feminazi]].

* While some of it is borrowed from real life slang (such as "berk" from Cockney Rhyming Slang), the same can be said of D&D's {{Planescape}} Cant.

A specific form of MemeticMutation, it is the cultural effect that a runaway hit show can have on everyday language. Characters' [[PersonalDictionary personal vocabularies]] often seep into the real world, especially if they [[{{Neologism}} give a name to a phenomenon that didn't formerly have one]].

** "Manxome" is also an official word found in dictionaries now. It means "like a manx", being a word along the lines of "feline", "canine", "leonine", etc. I do believe you'll find "jabberwocky" in dictionaries as well, meaning something like "gibberish" or "nonsense" if memory serves. "Chortle" has essentially evolved all the way into a proper, un word.

** "Revenge is a dish best served cold." Notable for not actually originating in ''Trek'', but it's best remembered from ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Wrath of Khan]]''.