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Wellerism (iou)



Wellerism noun. Also wellerism. M19.
[from Samuel Weller or his father, two characters in Dickens's Pickwick Papers + -ISM.]
A form of humorous comparison in which a familiar saying or proverb is identified with something said by a person in a specified but inapposite situation.
New Society The Wellerism: 'Meet you at the corner as one wall said to another.'