: New: Mumbled Artist's Instructions Puzzle

This is a puzzle. I gave an artist some instructions, a three-word English phrase. Alas, I mumbled those instructions and the artist did their best to depict what they heard. The artist gave me four images to choose from, different attempts to depict the same mis-heard instructions:

[bizarre image] [bizarre image] [bizarre image] [bizarre image]

Can you guess the original phrase? If you want to reply with the answer someplace public, please ROT-13 it to avoid spoiling it for others.

To clarify the puzzle gimmick, an example: Suppose each image showed a window, an angry movie critic, and some bugs. You think the artist was trying to draw shutter, panned, ants. So you say "Shutter, panned, ants" out loud a few times. Listening to yourself, you figure out the answer: "Shut up and dance."

I saw this puzzle gimmick somewhere on the internet and can no longer find it. If you know whose idea I'm stealin taking inspiration from, please let me know. I didn't really mumble instructions at a real artist. Instead, I gave the "mumbled" instructions to the DALL-E artifical intelligence picture-drawing service. (By the way, they'll let anybody make images at DALL-E these days, you don't need to be someone special.) The little row of colored squares in the bottom-right of each image don't relate to the instructions; I think DALL-E adds those to every image it creates.

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