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| has gloss | eng: Joes Diner is a placeholder name for a fictional or hypothetical everymans restaurant. Although there are franchises that use the name, its rhetorical use is often to describe a small, local business contrasted against large businesses or franchises. The phrase "Eat at Joes" is a complementary fictional or hypothetical typical advertisement for such an establishment, and has itself become a snowclone in the form of X at Joes, Eat at Ys, or simply X at Ys. |
| lexicalization | eng: Joe's Diner |
| instance of | c/Fictional restaurants |
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