These elaborate systems of divination, with their subdivisions, such as divination by moles on the face, or lines on the forehead (metopomancy), had been set out in many medieval treatises […].

It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]

They're in it up to their ears if they're phonying up a record of nonexistent checks.

Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pies. Loser!