Therefore they are doomed to make the same mistakes, to repeat the same gags, the same catchphrases over and again.
He also reads worry per se as a literary trope, a "comedy of mental manners" in which its victims are like stage characters trapped in their humours, always enacting the same scenes and parroting the same catchphrases.
Both stick to the same premises, the same jokes and the same catchphrases and although they can still be effective and sometimes funny, both can often feel stale and repetitive because it's impossible for them not to given how long they have been around.
Same crock catchphrases to describe sloppy, mediocre painting, different decade and different conniving slackers playing the role of "the anointed one".
If we keep seeing the same links and catchphrases ricocheting around our social networks, it might mean we are being exposed only to what we want to hear, says Damon Centola, an assistant professor of economic sociology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Over and over Trump recycles the same punchlines and catchphrases, performing his greatest hits before each new audience as if the material had freshly popped into his head.
Before Tony Blair began his lubricated slide into power, the notion that politicians should be preening, media-friendly automatons, figures with the same number of catchphrases as a toy with a string in its back, was something dangerously American.
For almost five minutes Tuesday night, Tosh hammered ESPN after "Sports Center recently introduced a feature called "Awesome Video Segment," which appears to use the same formula -- and catchphrases such as "give it another shot" -- that Tosh uses for his "Web Redemption".
After all, there aren't too many places where you can embarrass your parents and pick up a catchphrase, all under the same roof.
Reciting the same economic arguments with slightly reworked catchphrases will probably mean the policies hit the same walls as last time.
