Line
Schtick
Schtick noun - (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention.
Line and schtick are semantically related in habitual activity topic. Sometimes you can use "Line" instead a noun "Schtick".
Both words in one sentence
- Even his Thou Shall Not Kill schtick is done not because he's against killing fully, but because he doesn't want the ponies to play hardball on him if he crosses that line.
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This is Tamaki's schtick in Ouran High School Host Club - a dashing, flirtatious half-French charmer who girls line up to swoon over.
Source: Prince Charming -
Wham Line: Sabrina saying "swim like a fish" in "Fish Schtick" changes the entire subject of the scene from Sabrina being jealous of Dorsala into the consequences of Sabrina as a fish.
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