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I was watching the new Sherlock series (the one written by those two Doctor Who writers), and there was a scene where Watson asked Holmes about a case that Holmes was ignoring, and Holmes said, "I'm putting my best man on it." Watson replied along the lines of "Ah, good" — only after a delay realizing that Holmes was talking about him. When I saw that, I thought of another scene: when Roy got a job as a bodyguard from Hinjo.
In both these cases, the one character talks about the other in abstract terms ("my best man", "an idea where I can hire a bodyguard"), and the other doesn't realize immediately that they're the subject of the conversation.
It's related to Got Volunteered, but I think it's a little different.