# What is the most commonly used phrase in English that came from a movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 2, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068 "2024-12-02T16:37:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/181 "2024-12-14T03:12:50Z")
Well, around here in SW Ohio "Greetings and salutations’, "What’s your damage, Heather?!‘’ and “Well,fuck me with a chainsaw” were slipped into the conversations of many a Saturday night’s festivities 🤩 ---
**Author:** ![f.coli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@f.coli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/f.coli)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/182 "2024-12-14T21:30:08Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > ain’t How about “You ain’t seen nothing yet” from The Jazz Singer (1927)? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/183 "2024-12-14T21:48:01Z")
> [@f.coli](#): > > How about “You ain’t seen nothing yet” from The Jazz Singer (1927) ? That’s a good one but it might be disqualified on a technicality. It was originally from a Jolson record released 8 years earlier (and 55 years before BTO 😀) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/184 "2024-12-14T21:51:02Z")
The phrase was in use well before 1927. [Here’s a use](https://books.google.com/books?id=YMOioyV84dsC&pg=PA28&dq=%22you+ain%27t+seen+nothing+yet%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb56ybnqiKAxXwJDQIHUadEbAQ6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=%22you%20ain't%20seen%20nothing%20yet%22&f=false) from 1876 and [here’s one](https://books.google.com/books?id=VOC8UZQryh8C&pg=PA369&dq=%22you+ain%27t+seen+nothing+yet%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb56ybnqiKAxXwJDQIHUadEbAQ6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=%22you%20ain't%20seen%20nothing%20yet%22&f=false) from 1895 and [here’s one](https://books.google.com/books?id=JGk6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA38&dq=%22you+ain%27t+seen+nothing+yet%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb56ybnqiKAxXwJDQIHUadEbAQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=%22you%20ain't%20seen%20nothing%20yet%22&f=false) from 1920. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/185 "2024-12-15T03:20:41Z")
The actual line from The Jazz Singer… “Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet.” Heard, not seen, because until then movies were silent. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/186 "2024-12-15T12:44:24Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Seriously, has anyone ever said “It puts the lotion on its back” except when talking about Silence of the Lambs? I do, maybe once or twice a year. So, around #50 on this list, for me — but legit. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/187 "2024-12-15T21:31:57Z")
Although the AFI’s list of 100 greatest movies quotes contains six from “Casablanca”, they do not include “I’m shocked, SHOCKED…” which seems to me to have and to see more everyday use than the others. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/188 "2024-12-15T21:59:28Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > they do not include “I’m shocked, SHOCKED…” It might require more context than “here’s lookin’ at you, kid” and the others. But I think you’re correct that it gets a lot of use. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/189 "2024-12-16T02:00:18Z")
That is so fetch. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/190 "2024-12-16T02:03:15Z")
I had to look that up, because I’ve never once heard or read someone say that. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/191 "2024-12-16T02:05:42Z")
Just as Regina predicted. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/192 "2024-12-25T11:57:32Z")
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/193 "2024-12-25T13:38:51Z")
“Surely you’re joking!” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/194 "2024-12-25T14:26:59Z")
What movie invented that phrase? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/195 "2024-12-25T14:28:35Z")
_ **Airplane** _? ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/196 "2024-12-25T14:30:52Z")
_Sliding Doors_ is a phrase I’ve seen used a lot over the last 25-odd years, as in ‘a real _Sliding Doors_ moment’, where had something panned out slightly differently, the future could have been very different. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/197 "2024-12-25T16:17:41Z")
I’ve never once heard or read that phrase. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/198 "2024-12-25T17:04:41Z")
You must have missed the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/199 "2024-12-26T13:52:04Z")
Today I learned that “Shut your pie hole” came from Christine by Stephen King. It was in the book and used in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-commonly-used-phrase-in-english-that-came-from-a-movie/1011068/200 "2024-12-26T20:18:57Z")
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