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The phrase "threat or menace" is commonly used in headlines to satirize an unfair prejudice. News columnists use the phrase frequently. Examples include the LATimes.Com, Forbes and Wired. It may have been borrowed from the legal phrase "without threat or menace," which is one of many fixed phrases in which two nearly synonymous words are combined, such as "let or hindrance" and "cease and desist." Early satirical uses of "threat or menace" are in Harvard Lampoon, National Lampoon, and The Amazing Spider-Man.

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  • The phrase "threat or menace" is commonly used in headlines to satirize an unfair prejudice. News columnists use the phrase frequently. Examples include the LATimes.Com, Forbes and Wired. It may have been borrowed from the legal phrase "without threat or menace," which is one of many fixed phrases in which two nearly synonymous words are combined, such as "let or hindrance" and "cease and desist." Early satirical uses of "threat or menace" are in Harvard Lampoon, National Lampoon, and The Amazing Spider-Man. A misconception is that there was an anti-drug film in the late 1950s/early 1960s called Marijuana: Threat or Menace. However this seems to actually be part of the 1999 documentary "Grass."—done as a satire of anti-marijuana films. (en)
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  • The phrase "threat or menace" is commonly used in headlines to satirize an unfair prejudice. News columnists use the phrase frequently. Examples include the LATimes.Com, Forbes and Wired. It may have been borrowed from the legal phrase "without threat or menace," which is one of many fixed phrases in which two nearly synonymous words are combined, such as "let or hindrance" and "cease and desist." Early satirical uses of "threat or menace" are in Harvard Lampoon, National Lampoon, and The Amazing Spider-Man. (en)
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  • Threat or menace (en)
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