def: (idiomatic) A phrase frequently or habitually used by a person or group, and thus associated with them.
- Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.
e.g. (JP) いってきます
- see you later (said by a person leaving, a stock phrase required by the Japanese etiquette, lit.: (after) going, I will come back)
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