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Hold Your Hippogriffs: A (more often than not) cringeworthy version of a saying (though can be invented on the spot), that is prone to cause Fatal Death in most readers. But it sounds fun, who wou...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T07:29:05Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/31867 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Mephistopheles
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2019-12-08T07:29:05Z (almost 5 years ago)
[Hold Your Hippogriffs:](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HoldYourHippogriffs) A (more often than not) cringeworthy version of a saying (though can be invented on the spot), that is prone to cause [Fatal Death](https://youtu.be/VXe9C3nZxxY?t=208) in most readers. But it sounds fun, who wouldn't want to say _"You have as much chance as [Flower Hill](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Animation/SquirrelAndHedgehog) against the [exterminators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pest_control)."_, or closer to the trope _"I'd rather watch an Orion-drive takeoff from bellow than to go there"_. You get the point. **So, how can I make in-universe sayings/curses/ whatever, without popping a reader's head?**
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-12-07T20:42:34Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 1