Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 21:17:41 -0500

From: Evan Morris words1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WORD-DETECTIVE.COM

Subject: Re: Is "quit, quit now" a catchphrase?



At 09:07 PM 11/14/97 -0500, Gregory {Greg} Downing wrote:



Query: a Japanese correspondent of mine from the Joyce email list wondered

if the phrase "quit, quit now" is a current US catchphrase. I only recognize

it in a very general way, in that the formula "[imperative verb],

[imperative verb] now" seems desperately emphatic. Does anyone recognize the

phrase in question as a distinctive locution?



Not per se, but it might be related to the "Be afraid, be very afraid" line

from the Jeff Goldblum remake of "The Fly" a few years back. That one has

attained currency as a catch phrase in its own right, probably through its

use in the once-pervasive TV ads for the film.

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Evan Morris

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