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This is not what a cached thought is. You are describing a rationalization. Returning a cached thought carries no implication of rationalization; rationalization, typically, requires new thinking.
If people are repeating what they were told when they asked others what the saying meant, does it count as a cached thought then?
Yes, the original reply is a cached thought. The invented rationalization is not, unless they heard it at the same time.