All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVI

[GethN7]

Do we have this? (Or is it Too Rare to Trope?)

A character says his Catch Phrase, and another character responds by pointing out how that phrase is inappropriate to the current situation.

This isn't "Catchphrase Interruptus", because the second character doesn't interrupt the first one.

I know what you are referring to.

Something like that happens in the Discworld book "Night Watch", where Sam Vimes travels back in time and tries to use a catchphrase that draws only confusion because they don't know what he's talking about, prompting him to internally realize he's referring to something that won't exist for several more years.