Antimetabole

• "Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno" ("One for all, all for one")
• "Eat to live, not live to eat." — attributed to Socrates
• "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." — John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.
• "There is no 'way to peace'. Peace is the way." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." — Mark 2:27[2]
• "When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
• "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind." — Snoop Dogg in the song "Gin and Juice"
• "In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, Party always finds you!" — Yakov Smirnoff
• "The great object of [Hamlet's] life is defeated by continually resolving to do, yet doing nothing but resolve." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
• "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us." — Malcolm X, Malcolm X
• "He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man." — Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass[3]
• "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" — William Shakespeare, Macbeth[4]
• “And we’ll lead, not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.” — Joseph R. Biden, Inaugural Address[5]
• "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime" — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray[6]
• "I'm hoping that somebody pray for me, I'm praying that somebody hope for me." — JID in the song "Enemy (Imagine Dragons and JID song)"

It is derived from the Greek ἀντιμεταβολή (antimetabolḗ), from ἀντί (antí, "against, opposite") and μεταβολή (metabolḗ, "turning about, change").

• Anadiplosis
• Chiasmus
• Figure of speech
• Rhetoric
• Russian reversal
• Symploce

• Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.

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• Audio examples of antimetabole at americanrhetoric.com
• Lapidos, Juliet (September 5, 2008). "The Hottest Rhetorical Device of Campaign '08". Slate.com. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
• Lapidos, Juliet (September 19, 2008). "The Old Switcheroo". On The Media. National Public Radio. Archived from the original on April 19, 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
• Antimetabole detector at lingfil.uu.se