"Location, location, location": a proverb?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 5/28/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> If "Location, location, location" can rightly be called a proverb, then is it this exact
> saying or just the "X, x, x" formula that's proverbial?
>
> Last night on _Cold Case_ (CBS-TV; a rerun, I believe) the saying was "Reputation,
> reputation, reputation"--uttered as if it's proverbial. What other such retriplications (?!)
> exist?

See Arnold Zwicky's Language Log post on the X3 snowclone (which
summarizes ADS-L discussion on the topic):

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001673.html


--Ben Zimmer

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