Question for USA followers: does "Die Hard" resonate for you as "That battery that also became the name of a hit movie series", or do you just think "John McClane, Hans Gruber, et al" ?
From this side of the pond, I literally just learned of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DieHard_(brand) from watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO-70EQ8mPA&list=WL&index=31
The phrase "Die Hard" had no resonance with me outside the movie otherwise. I wondered whether this was an instance of Hollywood inserting itself into global terminology, usurping a brand?
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