<span class="searchmatch">don't</span> <span class="searchmatch">X</span> <span class="searchmatch">me</span> (<span class="searchmatch">snowclone</span>) Used as a reply, it means "<span class="searchmatch">don't</span> say <span class="searchmatch">X</span> to <span class="searchmatch">me</span>", where <span class="searchmatch">X</span> is something that the interlocutor just said. <span class="searchmatch">Don't</span> "get out" <span class="searchmatch">me</span>, greenhorn...
one likes <span class="searchmatch">X</span>, but <span class="searchmatch">X</span> doesn't like one (<span class="searchmatch">snowclone</span>, of a food item) One has a temptation to eat food item <span class="searchmatch">X</span>, but food item <span class="searchmatch">X</span> causes a health problem for oneself...
<span class="searchmatch">Snowclones</span> are a kind of cliché in which the principal words of a phrase are changed while the structure of the phrase remains the same. These phrases...
old idiom formulaically in a new context. (See also Appendix:English <span class="searchmatch">snowclones</span>) solemn Used to evoke a sense of current events being highly important...