So you’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?

In online culture, the use of phrasal formulas or templates known as snowclones, phrases adapted for reuse through the change of some of its elements, is widespread. These “multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn, quoted or misquoted phrase[s] or sentence[s] (…) can be used in an entirely open array of different variants” (<a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000061.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Pullum, 2003</a>). The term derives from the <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/journalese" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">journalese</a> expression “If Eskimos have N words for snow, X surely have M words for Y.” As it was first presented, the term applied to “adaptable cliche frames for lazy journalists” (<a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000350.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Pullum, 2004</a>), but that is certainly not their only use: there are many familiar variants that we apply in our everyday lives, such as the Shakespearean ‘to X or not to X’, and Saddam Hussein’s ominous ‘the mother of all X’. <a href="https://medium.com/@paloma.apesteguia/so-youre-telling-me-a-shrimp-fried-this-rice-4cd3f7fe3f19">Click Here</a>