Appendix:Snowclones/Is X in the room with us right now?

English

Alternative forms

• Is X in the room with you right now?

Etymology

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Phrase

Is X in the room with us right now?

1. (snowclone, Internet slang, rhetorical question) Asked of somebody who makes a claim about some nefarious force to imply that they are only hallucinating that it exists.

   Is wokeness in the room with us right now?

Statistics

• Frequency: Very frequent (upward of 5 billion Google results)