The phrase has itself been a source of surprise, as novice users may take it to mean that Ruby's behaviors try to closely match behaviors familiar from other languages.

The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying, since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listener is surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.

Therefore, if the audience is not already familiar with the phrase used in the punch line, or is not aware of the multiple meanings of the words in the phrase, the surprise ending of the joke cannot be recovered by explaining the joke to the audience.

The Vulgate translates this phrase as in terram visionis (" in the land of vision ") which implies that Jerome was familiar with the reading " Moreh ", a Hebrew word whose consonants suggest " vision.

Sometimes a familiar phrase is used where dignified language would be expected ; sometimes the reverse.

" which became a familiar catch phrase during the 1940s.

The familiar opening phrase " tales well-calculated to ..." was satirized by Mad as the cover blurb " Tales Calculated to Drive You ... Mad " on its first issue ( October – November 1952 ) and continuing until issue # 23 ( May 1955 ).

Edwards wrote, " In connection with these much discussed Variations, Mr Elgar tells us that the heading Enigma is justified by the fact that it is possible to add another phrase, which is quite familiar, above the original theme that he has written.

" The flying, fickle finger of fate " was already a familiar catchphrase on the show ( Dan Rowan would use the phrase when ushering " new talent " like Tiny Tim on stage ).

" At a meeting of the PLP I accused Ian Mikardo of being ' out of his tiny Chinese mind '— a phrase of the comedienne Hermione Gingold, with which I thought everyone was familiar.

The phrase industry term implies that a word or phrase is a typical one within a particular industry or business and people within the industry or business will be familiar with and use the term.

Her most familiar phrase, however, is " Good is better than evil becuz it's nicer!

In this example, the familiar phrase " The sky is falling " is retained, although two subjects would normally require a change to the plural verb " are.

When James Joyce uses the phrase " the snot-green sea " he is playing on Homer's familiar epithet " the wine-dark sea ".

In William Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet, epithets are used in the prologue, used in the familiar phrase of " star-cross'd lovers " and " death-mark'd love.

This was a familiar phrase to the July 2, 1997 Summerfest.

It led to a familiar phrase of the time, “ incineration without representation ".

The first waltz theme is familiar gently rising triad motif in cellos and horns in the tonic D major, accompanied by the harp ; the Viennese waltz beat is accentuated at the end of each 3-note phrase.

A familiar occurrence of the phrase is in the early English poem Widsith, who " had in the first instance gone with Ealhild, the beloved weaver of peace, from the east out of Anglen to the home of the king of the glorious Goths, Eormanric, the cruel troth-breaker ..."

Even in modern America the phrase " Contra Dance " is used alongside the more familiar term " square dance " or " barn dance ".

Folk etymology is change in a word or phrase over time resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one.

The portico of the magnificent edifice quickly became a popular rendezvous and " Meet you at the Ref " became a familiar phrase on the lips of students, lovers and unemployed youths.

“ The reader … eagerly follows the flight of LaMotte, also of Peter, his coachman, an attached, comic, and familiar domestic .”

By far the most recognizable brand was their Crayola “ Gold Medal ” line in the familiar yellow boxes.

Early on, Rouse said that he hoped Tivoli would be a place “ where, under the benign influence of having fun and relaxing in familiar ways, people would have opportunities, especially attractively and conveniently presented, for discovering new ways to enjoy their free time — new foods, new visual and tactile aesthetic experiences, even new social relations .” Rouse wanted the town center in Columbia to provide the most comprehensive range of recreational activities and services that had ever been contemplated in a new town.

Little Women ’ s popular audience was responsive to ideas of social change as they were shown “ within the familiar construct of domesticity .” Even though Alcott was supposed to just write a story for girls, her main heroine, Jo March, became a favorite of many different women, including educated women writers through the 20th century.

According to Paul Lawrence Rose in his article “ The Politics of Antony and Cleopatra ," the views expressed in the play of “ national solidarity, social order and strong rule ” were familiar after the absolute monarchies of Henry VII and Henry VIII and the political disaster involving Mary Queen of Scots.

This painter has a mysterious “ family room ” that encloses a pool and displays already familiar framed sigils of the Endless.

Shklovskij ’ s formulations negate or cancel out the existence / possibility of “ real ’ perception: variously, by ( 1 ) the familiar Formalist denial of a link between literature and life, connoting their status as non-communicating vessels, ( 2 ) always, as if compulsively, referring to a real experience in terms of empty, dead, and automatized repetition and recognition, and ( 3 ) implicitly locating real perception at an unspecifiable temporally anterior and spatially other place, at a mythic “ first time ” of naïve experience, the loss of which to automatization is to be restored by aesthetic perceptual fullness.

Heaven, Hell, Olympus, and Valhalla are all “ alternative universes ” different from the familiar material realm.

In written science fiction, “ new dimensions ” more commonly — and more accurately — refer to additional coordinate axes, beyond the three spatial axes with which we are familiar.

" This window into the “ double lives ” of states of which Marshall wrote is a less familiar dimension of CI work, one that national security decision makers and scholars alike have largely neglected.

“ I was using a fairly familiar sort of sentence, in prose, with a last line that either boosted sales or fell flat as a flapjack.

Veteran QB Kent Austin was introduced to lead the club and the familiar “ A ” logo was replaced by a bold shielded warrior.

The name Chedorlaomer is associated with familiar Elamite components, such as kudur, meaning “ servant ”, and Lagamar who was a high goddess in the Elamite pantheon.

However, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote: “ The most distracting nonsense is the pop-up of familiar faces in so-called cameo roles, jarring the illusion .” Shana Alexander in Life Magazine stated: “ The pace was so stupefying that I felt not uplifted – but sandbagged !” And John Simon – later notorious as the frequently scathing theater and film critic of New York Magazine – wrote in the National Review: " God is unlucky in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

During the question-and-answer period after the lecture, Olasky asserted that Hauerwas, a distinguished ethicist and theologian at the Duke Divinity School, was reading “ a different Bible than the one I'm familiar with.

Hanslick suggests, “ Melody is the ‘ initial force ,’ the life-blood, the primitive cell of the musical organism, with which the drift and development of the composition are closely bound up .” He continues to state the both melody and harmony are “ achievement of man .” Rhythm and in particular duple meter, however, he believes is found in nature: “ It is the only musical element which nature possesses, the first we are conscious of, and that with which the mind of the infant and the savage becomes soonest familiar .” He continues to posit that music is a product of the mind, having no precursor in nature.

Fenris State University professor Dr. Barry Mehler cited for example a quote from a 1969 dissertation by Sheldon Morris Neuringer titled American Jewry and United States immigration policy, 1881-1953 where MacDonald surmised that noted that when Neuringer noted Jewish opposition in 1921 and 1924 to the anti-immigration legislation at the time was due more to it having the “ taint of discrimination and anti-Semitism ” as opposed to how it would limit Jewish immigration, MacDonald wrote, “… Jewish opposition to the 1921 and 1924 legislation was motivated less by a desire for higher levels of Jewish immigration than by opposition to the implicit theory that America should be dominated by individuals with northern and western European ancestry .” “ It seems to me Mr. MacDonald is misrepresenting Mr. Neuringer in this case and I posted my query hoping that a historian familiar with the literature might have a judgment on MacDonald's use of the historical data ,” Mehler wrote, citing other examples.

'" Towards the end of the same essay, Vertov mentions an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling it an " experimental film " made without a scenario ; just three paragraphs above, Vertov mentions a scene from " Kino Pravda " which should be quite familiar to viewers of Man with the Movie Camera: the peasant works, and so does the urban woman, and so too, the woman film editor selecting the negative ...."

In 1959, Rennie became a familiar face on television, taking the role of Harry Lime in The Third Man, an Anglo-American syndicated television series very loosely based on the character previously played by Orson Welles.

As well, familiar images become alien, as in the films Repo Man and Liquid Sky.

This album included her classics " Te Veo Pasar " ( I See You Walk By ), " Señor Del Pasado " ( Man from the Past ), and " El Poder del Amor ", which was a cover of the popular song " The Power of Love " ( most familiar in the Céline Dion version ).

His other songs were mostly a mixture of ballads associated with Ireland such as " I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen ", " Dear Old Donegal ", " Galway Bay ", " The Isle of Innisfree " ( the theme song from the film " The Quiet Man "), and another Dick Farrelly song, " The Rose of Slievenamon ", excerpts from operettas including " The Drinking song " from The Student Prince, " My Heart and I " from Richard Tauber's operatta Old Chelsea, and " Goodbye " from The White Horse Inn, along with familiar favourites such as " Come Back to Sorrento " and " Cara Mia ".

Songs like My Old Man ( Said Follow the Van ), Knocked ' em in the Old Kent Road, and Waiting at the Church, expressed in melodic form situations with which the urban poor were very familiar.

Later episodes with fantasy elements included the bizarre poisoning of freemasons in Poison, the Christmas episode Fires in the Fall ( which features a Bergman-esque representation of Death which appears, to judge from the last line, to have been real in spite of a ' Scooby-Doo ' explanation having been offered a scene earlier ), A Man of Sorrows which is the only episode of the sixth series set almost entirely outside Jersey, the only episode at all to lack Charlie Hungerford and-partly because of the heroin nature of the storyline, partly because of the lack of familiar characters-a dark, humourless episode unlike any other in the series ), the densely plotted The Other Woman, The Dig involving an apparent Viking's curse ( apparently inspired by Hammer Horror movies ), and Warriors about a group who believed in the existence of Atlantis.

Her practice of construction has been honed and matured in the process of making a body of work to the point that in this piece, unlike so many of her pieces where the technique of construction so dominates the character of the work, whether it be a “ Running Man ”, a “ Horse or a “ Tribute Head ” she is at this point able to step back, work in her familiar way and yet let the character of the subject dominate the method.

He was a familiar figure strolling down Paisley Road West towards training at Ibrox sporting, as befitted a professional man of the time, bowler hat and umbrella, which caused locals to dub him " The Wee Society Man " ( insurance salesman ).

Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 would later revert back to the familiar graphical style set forth by this title.

Mega Man III was given a positive review from the North American Electronic Gaming Monthly, which noted its use of familiar gameplay and a large amount of visual detail.

Marin's good command of the English language and his resemblance to the stereotypical Frenchman looks made him a familiar face in some major American and British productions ( Charade, The Train, Marathon Man ) and Disney movies ( The Island at the Top of the World and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo ).

Redesigned by European comic artist Moebius, Beast Man has the same concepts as his familiar version, yet at the same time has a noticeably different appearance, with longer, browner fur rather than his usual orange, no tribal facepaint and a possibly Samurai-influenced new design for his chest armor.

In addition to films, Franz was a familiar face on American television, appearing on dozen of television programs including Crossroads, Perry Mason, The F. B. I., The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Custer, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Virginian and Rawhide.