Citations:Snowclones/that's X for you

English citations of Appendix:Snowclones/that's X for you

• 1990, William Murray, The Getaway Blues:

  "I was just asking," he said. "He didn't have to get so mad. Somebody's fuckin' her. I thought it might be him. Geez, thirty years I know him and he didn't even say who he liked in the double. That's friendship for you."

• 1996 March, Peter Oliver, “Bachelor party”, in Skiing, volume 48, number 7, page 66:

  There is an Our Town orderliness to the heart of the city -- two-story storefront buildings, well-pointed bricks and clean sidewalks, a bank at the corner. Cafes and restaurants serve the beverages of '90s social correctness -- cappuccino, latte, microbrewed beers. Live right, play hard, and never have to say you're bored -- that's Bend for you. Ironically, this has left some Benders I encountered a bit edgy. They worry that visitors might misjudge them,

• 1996 March 21, ABC_Nightline:

  This is the new rough-and-tumble world of politics in Taiwan. In their parliament, clashes of ideas sometimes become clashes with fists. Some political parties burn Communist Chinese flags to protest China's war games, and a few extremists even burn an American flag to protest America's presence. That's freedom for you.

• 1997 December 25, Mark Kemp with Eric Boehlert, “Life after death.”, in Rolling Stone, page 104:

  Everyone in the room erupts in laughter. The kind of laughter that brings tears. It's a laughter that has positively conjured the ghost of Brad Nowell - right here, right now, in the wee hours of an October morning in Long Beach. It's a few moments before Wilson's gregarious girlfriend, Kat Rodriguez, breaks the silence: " Now, that's Brad for you - in a nutshell," she says. "He was going to do things his way or no way. That's why no band will ever sound like Sublime. […] ."

• 1998 March, Francine Prose, “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 281, number 3, page 64:

  Bill doesn't care how he's portrayed in the poem; he's content to be in it. That's men for you: responding with Pavlovian drool to the mere mention of their names.

• 2003 November 10, Meghan Cox Gurdon, “The Horror, the Horror.”, in National Review, volume 55, number 21, pages 24–27:

  for nearly a month every year, Halloween infantilizes the entire country. Giggly pleasure in dress-ups and sweets is fetching in children. But when it overwhelms a great portion of the autumn, and otherwise grown-up people enter into the supposed " spirit " without having any idea why they do so, then it becomes a piece of sustained and irritating whimsy. # That's Halloween for you in a pumpkin-shell: sweet enough for children, but when adults join in, it's just plain childish.

• 2004, John Brancato with Michael Ferris and John Rogers, Catwoman:

  LONE # Where you heading? / PATIENCE # Why? You still keeping tabs on me? Said on TV the Catwoman case was closed. / LONE # Mm. No hard feelings...? / PATIENCE # Nah. In a way, it was flattering. / LONE # Funny thing, no one at the station remembers letting you out of jail. / PATIENCE # That's bureaucracy for you.