Movies Popularizing Slang

[Tom Kysilko]

At 12:16 PM 8/18/2002 -0400, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>Can anyone suggest names of movies that played significant roles in
>popularizing slang expressions, such as "Clueless" or "Wayne's World"?

Do you mean pre-existing slang expressions that were employed in a movie
and made more popular thereby, or memorable expressions from a movie that
became  slang?  If the former, I have no suggestions.  If the latter, ...

Casablanca:  "the usual suspects"

As it is used now, people so referred to are usually not in any sense
suspects, but people who are called upon for some reason, or who merely
show up.


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