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单词 double entendre
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Rishi jerked his head up to look at her, and she blushed, realizing the double entendre of her words. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
“You look a little . . . Pardon the double entendre, my friend, but there’s something a little worrisome in your eyes.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z
He had a chip on his shoulder: it was a sort of black joke he shared with himself, a double entendre, made silently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
Afterward, they regroup in the living room for board games and goofy improvisation contests, all free of profanity and even double entendre. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
“It was all double entendre, and hidden meaning, deeply wonderful stuff and no doubt would have thrilled anyone familiar with Polari, to hear it on the radio, and know what it meant,” Mr. Green said. ‘Jeuje,’ ‘Zhoosh,’ ‘Zhuzh’: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z
It begins at simple double entendre and ends, far better, somewhere near puerile slapstick. | 'State of Georgia': Conquering the Big City, With an Auntie Mame on Her Side 2011-06-28T22:08:37Z
For what’s sure to be the first of several lazy double entendre sketches this year, Eye on Pittsburg covers a super spreader event occurring at the Name Change Department of the Pittsburg Federal Building. Saturday Night Live: Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey face off in debate parody 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z
The operative literary device is the double entendre. ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’ Review: Cinema Pinot Grigio 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z
Last year, Ms. Apple released a Christmas tune on Tumblr that made such ferocious use of a double entendre that its title can’t be published in The New York Times. Fiona Apple Releases a Trump Protest Chant 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z
The title itself is a dirty Elizabethan double entendre, and the actors relish the naughty nuances of their dialogue. Movie Review: ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Directed by Joss Whedon 2013-06-06T14:57:14Z
"I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don’t get it don’t know about it." Betty White's best life lessons and funniest quotes as her 100th birthday approaches 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z
Perhaps, like us, he has picked up on the shocking double entendre in her words. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z
A duet between Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio literally had me unintentionally laughing, and songs like “The National Pastime” will depend on your taste for elbow-through-the-ribs double entendre. Dead Tree Alert: Smash: Broadway?s West Wing, or Its Studio 60? 2012-02-02T15:31:12Z
On the facade of the New York State Pavilion in the 1964 World’s Fair, Warhol presented portraits based on F.B.I. criminal mug shots with the double entendre title “Most Wanted Men.” Warhol at the Whitney: From Myth to Man 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z
Of course not -- and if you consider the double entendre built into Abed's "Cougar Town" tale, you can see where the episode will end. "My Community Pulp Fictional Dinner with Andre" 2011-03-25T16:04:00Z
On “None of My Jelly Roll,” from a 1963 recording, Barrett sings an old blues lyric full of playful double entendre and shows off her rolling barroom piano style. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z
On the music hall stage, the wink and the double entendre were natural companions. Wink murder: is the lascivious gesture dying a death? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z
“We thought it was a double entendre that would work,” said June Millington, 74. The All-Female Band Fanny Made History. A New Doc Illuminates It. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z
Five years later came this refutation from the New Orleans school of double entendre – here because no discussion of innuendo is complete without a sausage. Readers recommend: innuendo in songs – results 2013-04-25T13:52:46Z
His double entendre about Alana getting her own taste of Hannibal, along with the rhyme “spitters are quitters”, is actually the most disgusting part of the episode. Hannibal recap: season three, episode five – Contorno 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z
It was the relentless double entendre; the schoolyard obsession with tits and bums. The Two Ronnies: the double act's popularity is still booming 2010-12-23T10:30:00Z
He got so excited that he missed his own double entendre about those bankers "who have got the money needing to go down". Russell Brand rules Question Time's clash of the egos 2013-06-21T00:13:16Z
“Er ... Sorry”, read the inscription, a double entendre, on the gray Israeli-built wall. At West Bank tea party, artist Banksy offers royal 'apology' for Balfour Declaration 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z
“Every single time, there’s a different double entendre I missed, a different nuance,” she said. Her #OscarsSoWhite campaign changed how Hollywood deals with race. Now she’s taking on HBO. 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z
Usually this is just an excuse for a double entendre about the dish’s coarse, fiery flavours. How to cook the perfect pasta puttanesca 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z
By narrating her feelings to him in all their volatile, debasing truth, Kraus discovers, starting with her hilarious, declarative double entendre of a title. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z
Her title is a wry double entendre, referring at once to the elderly characters she depicts and to the collection of Egyptian archaeological artifacts almost obsessively guarded by the novella’s narrator, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie. Review | With ‘Antiquities,’ Cynthia Ozick is as vibrant on the page as ever 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z
Like “Brown Sugar,” it was a metaphor, or a double entendre, if you will. D’Angelo and Bobby Seale on the Past and Future of Political Protest 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z
In funny visual double entendre, he teaches her how to knead dough. Review: ‘Gemma Bovery,’ a Modern Sex Comedy With a Nod to Flaubert 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z
"He relies on the double entendre and lets us use our imagination." 3 Broadway shows hum happily after Grammy nods 2011-12-01T18:52:09Z
The raid shown in the film is fictional, though it does fit with the unit's mission – known in the military, which is never shy of a double entendre, as long-range jungle penetration. Objective, Burma! – liberating cinema from the truth 2012-11-30T10:56:18Z
Was this one of those double entendre French things? Skiing Quebec, Where the Chef’s Table Is Just a Schuss Away 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z
My peers restricted their attention instead to a solitary joke comparing me to Frank Bruno, which hinged on the use of the word "ring" as a double entendre. How I came out to my three kids 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z
For all the obvious reasons — the alliteration, the inflection towards "Breaking Bad," the double entendre of breaking bread with people. Roy Choi shines a light on our broken food systems: "We'll throw away food before we feed people" 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z
“You always end too soon,” Beatrice says to her once and future partner Benedick, a double entendre lingering in the air. A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z
Like Golden’s “Black Male,” the title of Vassell’s show implies double entendre; it speaks to both the wounds left by racism and the freedoms afforded by seeing from the perspective of black experience. | A Group Show in TriBeCa Explores Black Identity Today 2014-05-01T22:10:31Z
Rarely has a double entendre done such sterling work. Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z
“All American” — its title a slick double entendre — includes references to dookie braids and James Brown, writing the Black experience into the sort of country song that would ordinarily exclude it. Nashville Didn’t Make Room for Mickey Guyton. So She Made Her Own. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z
Even Tilda’s instructions for handling the thread seem freighted with double entendre. Review: In ‘Spindle Shuttle Needle,’ History With Strings Attached 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z
But what’s striking about the works in her show, “The Interesting Type,” isn’t so much their density of double entendre as how effervescently charming they are. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z
Ian Gomez also goes for a “soggy bottom” joke in the first episode, but references cookies instead of pies or tarts, and totally misses the provenance of the double entendre. The Great Holiday Baking Show: US tries and fails to copy UK super smash 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z
Through my teens, the sketch stayed with me and continued to reveal new layers of interest: when puberty stirred, the double entendre of the line "Same procedure as every year" mystified me. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z
Our dramaturge James Shapiro held forth on the number of “Howls” in the last scene, on the double entendre of “a smug bridegroom” and on the definition of the word “fut.” Learning 'Lear': Put It In the Blog! 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z
“Please Warm My Wiener” is one of the juiciest entries in the large genre of double entendre meat songs. The 19 greatest double entendre songs 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z
“Er ... Sorry”, read the inscription, a double entendre, on the gray Israeli-built wall. At West Bank tea party, artist Banksy offers royal 'apology' for Balfour Declaration 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z
As in “Godot,” there is hardly any plot in “Pass Over”; the title itself is a biblical double entendre. Review | ‘Pass Over’ opens — the first Broadway play in what feels like forever. And it’s funny and poignant. 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z
To be frank, kitchen slang is definitely ripe for double entendre, though as Lisa pointed out, mileage may vary. Why is everyone so horny for kitchen slang? 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z
Swedish writers are not partial to wit, metaphor, or double entendre, songwriting staples from Tin Pan Alley through the Brill Building era. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z
Every other line of dialogue — on subjects like plumbing, cooking and, yes, that new bike that Becky buys secondhand from the local Lothario — reverberated with double entendre. ‘The Village Bike’ Stars Greta Gerwig as a Woman Obsessed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z
Alex knows that doesn't matter, offering a bitter double entendre in response. "The Morning Show" looks at how consequences catch up to some people sooner than others 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z
No, like Play School-meets-Weimar cabaret with a certain amount of double entendre thrown in. New Edinburgh act of the day: Milk Presents 2011-08-11T13:10:05Z
A tube manager queried this ancient double entendre, but dropped his objection when a newspaper decided to run it full-page, double entendre and all. Poems on the Underground: copycats and controversies 2013-01-09T06:10:01Z
The title “Foe” is also a pun, though the rest of the movie is not so offensively bad as that double entendre; it’s just so lacking in substance and momentum as to be entirely inert. Review: In 'Foe,' two top actors are game but sci-fi vagueness becomes the enemy 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z
“I mean, it has to fit with secular society. It’s got to have some double entendre about the Gospel.” Pastor’s Washington-area ‘Not a sermon’ radio ads go national, bring Christian message to millions 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z
Elster argued the trademark would be used as “political commentary” targeted at the former president by invoking a double entendre from a 2016 Republican debate. Supreme Court will decide whether T-shirt mocking Trump as 'too small' can be trademarked 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z
Every adolescent boy and fan of “The Office” knows the proper response to an unintentional sexual double entendre: “That’s what she said.” Elon Musk is dying to be funny. These eight comedians have some notes 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z
“I think Suga is a bit more Lennon — more explicit in his antiestablishment sensibilities. ‘Haegeum’ is a double entendre of a traditional Korean string instrument and wordplay on ‘liberation from restrictions.’ BTS' Suga on going solo, his love of hip-hop and the band's future: 'We’re real brothers, period' 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z
The title, “I Swear,” is a double entendre that will be immediately recognizable to aficionados of the representative’s salty style. Review | Congress is a mess, these books argue — but maybe not messy enough 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z
The restaurant chain is known for having waitresses in revealing outfits, and its name is a double entendre referring to owls and women's breasts. FA says Hooters of Nottingham cannot sponsor under-10s football team 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z
There are countless double entendre in the book about how ignorant he felt his hometown was. Feedback: Let 'The Blue Boy' have his safe sojourn to London 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z
Well, it's sort of a double entendre; there are a few ideas I wanted to communicate with the title. From workplaces to politics to Instagram influencers, "cultish" language is everywhere 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z
But there’s also a whiff of double entendre, perhaps best left unexplained: The tunnel will ultimately store sewage and polluted stormwater. ‘MudHoney’ is the winning name for Seattle Public Utilities’ newest tunnel-boring machine 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z
Had its recurring joke, #ThatsWhatSheSaid, become so ubiquitous that the double entendre no longer pushed boundaries? Opinion | Getting lost in ‘The Office’ helped with isolation — and made us miss our own workplaces 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z
He then pointed to a woman in the crowd and asked which she preferred — to spit or to swallow — in a tone, according to four witnesses, that made the sexual double entendre clear. Jim Murray, a Top Whiskey Critic, Faces Accusations of Sexism 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z
"It serves as a double entendre that speaks to, on the surface, our products - black coffee and tea with bold taste," he says. The black-owned coffee firm that became a bestseller 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z
Teens flirt, and two kiss twice, while one character imagines her crush topless then spoons with him on a mattress after making a double entendre about its “firmness.” What to watch with your kids: ‘The Secret Garden,’ ‘Work It’ and more 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z
Schlager was also popular in Weimar Germany, and it actively celebrated the frivolous joys of life, including desire and infatuation, with a generous use of double entendre. Ja Ja Ding Dong! How schlager found its joyful place in the pop camp 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z
Hunters has a premise that feels like a double entendre. Hunters is very good at killing Nazis and very bad at most other things 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z
They must have thought Bill could handle it—that he could make it full Trojans game without inundating viewers in prophylactic double entendre after prophylactic double entendre—but they were wrong. If you thought Bill Walton was going to call a Trojans basketball game and not make a condom joke, you were wrong - Golf Digest 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z
The artwork was originally hailed by Perrotin as “a symbol of global trade, a double entendre, as well as a classic device for humour”. Banana artwork that fetched $120,000 is eaten by 'hungry' artist 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z
The other half of the completely unintentional double entendre needs no explanation...except to maybe Jeff himself. Jeff Van Gundy delivers all-time "phrasing" fail during Game 4 of Western Conference Finals - Golf Digest 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z
The pregame chants of “Back to back!” had become a double entendre, with Backstrom opening this playoff run with the first two goals. Perspective | Capitals learn Stanley Cup championship carry-over can carry them only so far 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z
The double entendre is apt for this modest neighborhood restaurant. Hanok: If cozy, homestyle Korean food is your thing, you should try this Madison Park family restaurant 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z
The collection dates back to 1658, with the book Rare Verities: the Cabinet of Venus Unlocked and Her Secrets Laid Open – the double entendre very much intended, according to Smith. British Library's collection of obscene writing goes online 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z
Actress known as "England's first lady of the double entendre", vocally alluring, intelligent and funny, she played Shakespeare but is best remembered for her line in Carry on Screaming: "Do you mind if I smoke?" Who died in 2018? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z
The lurid trials that followed were broadcast live on cable, inspiring countless double entendre headlines, juvenile late-night jokes and breathtakingly sexist commentary. Who's laughing now? Once treated as punchlines, women like Monica Lewinsky are now being celebrated by pop culture 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z
She will forever be "England's First Lady of the double entendre" with a velvety voice and silvery twinkle in her eye. Obituary: Fenella Fielding 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z
He winked and apologised for the “double entendre”. Even when the likes of Macron foul up, multilingual politicians get it right | Agnès Poirier 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z
Viewers can be forgiven for smirking at the seeming double entendre in the title of Marina Zenovich’s HBO documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind. In HBO’s Come Inside My Mind, Robin Williams bares it all 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z
“We’ve always said, ‘My button’s bigger,’ though obviously not with that gross double entendre,” said Michael R. Auslin, an Asia expert with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Trump’s tweets rattle the globe, but aides say North Korea policy is carefully calibrated 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z
The ads show the Christmas elf in a number of suggestive photos with double entendre captions. British discount store gets complaints for ‘naughty elf’ ads 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z
I'm a fundraising professional, so the double entendre is simply perfect. Your Best Ways to Say ‘Sorry, I’m Out of the Office’ 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z
At the peak of his fame, Toby Keith would have found a way to make this song, about being a hack on the links, a deep-dive double entendre about male fragility. null 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z
The titular XO may be shorthand for “Cross Over,” but if the level of soreness I experienced after taking her class is any indication, it’s also a double entendre. This workout takes less than an hour, but you'll feel it for days 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z
The ditty, replete with double entendre, was recorded in the UK in 1972. Chuck Berry's only number one: My ding-a-ling - BBC News 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z
“The cult of the astronaut in the early 1960s became the climax of JFK’s quest for masculine regeneration,” writes Watts, gleefully employing double entendre. Opinion | The vulnerability of the macho John F. Kennedy 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z
The title, indeed, is meant as a double entendre. For subjects of new Boston Marathon documentary, a struggle that wears on 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z
His photographs also speak truth as plain fact, with no double entendre implied. Meet the Unsung Street Photographer of 1980s New York 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z
They are putting their definitive stamp on the modern American comedy one decency-smashing double entendre at a time. Review: Audacious ‘Sausage Party’ is a delicious feast 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z
“We always like to imbue our theme with a double entendre.” Krewe of O.A.K. celebrates 30 years with Mardi Gras parade 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z
As adept as Kenneth Williams with a winning double entendre, Prince enters his post-Imperial years – when a hit was a delightful surprise rather than a matter of course – with this engagingly mucky, Bolanesque swaggerer. Prince: his 10 greatest songs from Head to Cream (and Purple Rain in between) 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z
The title of my book is “Broad Influence,” an obvious double entendre. 'Female' Is Now a Dirty Word 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z
“I like a little double entendre,” says Mr. Goodman, recalling how he made up “Elmo” so that U.S. traders could sell recycled electric motors to China, and “Shelmo” for shredded electric motors. In Scrap-Metal Market, Buyers Have to Tell ‘Darth’ From ‘Vader’ 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z
The film is a snapshot in time, and its title is a double entendre, focusing on the races of its central characters and the foot races of Jesse Owens, the grandson of American slaves. DEBORAH SIMMONS: ‘Race’ and Jesse Owens, race and the Democrats 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z
By “bottle” Mitchell meant guts, or nerve, but the word provides a fitting double entendre: the home of darts is the English pub. The Making of a Champion Darts Player 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z
The trio delivers in each sequel a steady stream of “Three Stooges”-style slapstick, sophomoric situations and double entendre wordplay. Blu-ray reviews: ‘Ted 2 Unrated,’ ‘The Naked Gun 2 1/2’ and ‘The Naked Gun 33 1/3’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z
The term "sport" was a colloquialism for sex, but also a hunting term, so it's a double entendre. Corsets, ostrich feather hats and 1890s brothels: A style maven spins stories of classic L.A. vice 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z
She liked the book so much I let her have it, and the double entendre so much I let her have it again. Peeple is a terrible idea. As proof, here is Peeple for Disney characters. 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
It’s like when someone points out a dirty double entendre in your favorite Disney movie and you can never look at it the same way again. ‘Eveready’? ‘Unit Two’? GOP candidates’ Secret Service code names, ranked 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
“The caption, ‘the 2nd protects the first’ is a double entendre,” Mr. Zimmerman told the vendor. George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin shooter, selling Confederate flag art 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z
The job requires the former Florida governor to recite lines while Fallon, stylized as a 1970s soul man, offers a double entendre. Jeb Bush ‘slow jams’ the news with Fallon 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z
Yes, it was a odd phrase, kind of a double entendre, but that made it all the more cheerful a greeting. Let Me Finish: Hillary Clinton's listening trip 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z
It’s also a double entendre on the slang term jelly, an amorphous, informal work group. Delta Business TravelVoice: A Smart Way To See The World: Take A Working Vacation 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z
It suddenly dawned on me that the long glassy pool at my back was designed to encourage this kind of reflection, functioning as a sort of double entendre, reflection both literal and figurative. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: 'Much Work Remains to Be Done' 2014-01-19T17:05:21Z
Tabloid reporters, who appear to be paid by the double entendre, have relished in the tawdry details and their effect on his "limp campaign". The death of shame 2013-08-01T23:01:29Z
Restore the Fourth—a double entendre that invokes both the nation’s founding and Fourth Amendment privacy rights—also created a website that will serve as a central hub for supporters in planning these rallies. Privacy Advocates Plan Anti-NSA Rallies for July 4 2013-07-04T00:05:22Z
But only a few media outlets turned down the versions with the double entendre, Mr. Rahner said, adding that “at the majority, there was not even a debate” over their acceptability. Advertising: Your [Choose Your Expletive] Ad Here 2013-01-17T01:38:23Z
With a wry smile, Motlanthe then professed his ignorance of the double entendre. Motlanthe keeps South Africa guessing on presidency bid 2012-10-12T14:12:09Z
By bringing a real historian's discipline to the task, Brendon has unearthed lots of new material, including the first logged double entendre by Margaret "Will this gun jerk me off?" Simon Hoggart's Week: Politicians' nonverbal signals are a hard to report 2012-07-27T20:03:01Z
You're the guy who thinks a suggestive double entendre is singularly funny. Why Your Employees Think You're a Jerk 2012-06-06T16:49:17Z
The double entendre of the day’s name is certainly not lost on the demonstrators. May Day: Live-Streaming Occupy Wall Street's 'General Strike' Protest 2012-05-01T17:35:30Z
For example, a campaign in 2009 for Three Olives, a vodka imported by Proximo, asked consumers a question with a double entendre that implied sexual ecstasy. Advertising: Your [Choose Your Expletive] Ad Here 2013-01-17T01:38:23Z
His million-plus followers were apparently quick to spot the unintentional double entendre. It Takes Tweets to Tango - Murdoch, Kutcher, the ur-Jack and the dangers of Twitter 2012-01-16T17:05:38Z
One day Gerbert celebrated his office in the Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem at Rome, and, feeling ill, asked where he was, observed the double entendre of the Evil One, and expired. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z
Even the location was a double entendre: the In and Out Club in central London. London Journal: David Guterson Wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award for ?Ed King? 2011-12-09T01:38:50Z
“He relies on the double entendre and lets us use our imagination.” Broadway?s ?The Book of Mormon,? ?Anything Goes? and ?How to Succeed? earn Grammy nods. 2011-12-01T18:41:05Z
"For my part," observed Madame Palffy majestically, "I have no desire to overhear anything in the nature of double entendre." The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z
It is strangely instructive to see how so great a writer as Diderot has affected this double entendre of Sterne's—to be equally ambiguous throughout is just the Sternian super-humour. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z
Without perceiving the double entendre hidden in my reply, she said: "And you have always slept well, then?" The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z
The word “poet” in Greek means properly “maker,” and there is evidently a double entendre in its use here. St. Dionysius of Alexandria Letters and Treatises 2011-06-29T02:00:23.247Z
He divined an innuendo, a double entendre in the speech that he did not comprehend, yet which enraged him. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z
It is not the heavy punning variety so mysteriously popular with the Englishman, nor the double entendre of the Frenchman. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z
By this method of double entendre Hugh gave me to understand his intention of going to Boston by an afternoon train. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z
But the fraternity house double entendre is beneath a car brand that has great cachet and appeals to a sophisticated buyer. Darth Vader Works His Mojo for VW, but Mini Misses the Mark 2011-02-11T22:28:10Z
Is that mirthful wordplay or a pointed double entendre, referring not just to the eventual champion but also to the poor fatsos still wallowing in shame? The Ripped and the Righteous 2011-01-30T04:30:22Z
The campaign it started last year, which included the double entendre, has become a sensation; last month, Zeta Interactive proclaimed the ads as having received the most social media buzz in 2010. As the Web Turns 2011-01-13T01:43:07Z
"The whole thing got blown right out of proportion," said Foxe, an inadvertent double entendre that made literally tens of easily pleased folk wet themselves. The Knowledge 2010-12-22T00:06:00Z
And sometimes there may be a kind of sexual innuendo or double entendre there that is implicit. Q&A: 'God and Sex' Author Michael Coogan on the Bible 2010-10-27T10:15:00Z
When confronted with a double entendre, a verbal fork in the road, the body heeds Yogi Berra’s advice, and takes it. 2010-02-02T05:11:00Z
The one I speak of met in an hotel not far from Covent-garden, and was presided over by a man famous in his day for his power of double entendre The Night Side of London
Lord, lord, how these old women love to hear bawdy!—Why, 'faith, madam, I have never a double entendre ready at present; but I suppose you know upon what score. The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee
I answered hastily, trying to avoid the unpleasant double entendre, and choosing to accept it in its strictly explicit phase. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself
There is a discussion, of which we have but the one side, on "double entendre" and plain speaking. The Life of Cicero Volume II.
“But I am responsible for the way in which those children grow up,” I said, quite innocent of the double entendre which brought a dark flush to my husband’s none too happy face. The Prairie Child
The sting lies in the double entendre in the last two lines, which really mean ‘so much the worst poet of all poets, as you are the best advocate of all clients, good and bad.’ The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
We could have added greatly to this book, especially in the part of jests, puns, or cases of double entendre. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
He laughed, too, about the joke itself, finding a sort of painful relief in double entendre. Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University
And so it was, though I had not been intending what the French call a double entendre at the time. Eliza
The old form of drama seems to have developed a keen sensibility to double entendre among theatre-goers. John Lyly
Still even this master must have attached some meaning to the phrase "double entendre," though he might not have used it in precisely Priscilla's sense. Priscilla's Spies
Whereupon Mr. Jefferson solemnly asks us "to observe the double entendre on the word King." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
The slightest double entendre made him blush to the eyes. "Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students
Some of that dreary double entendre may be attributed to freer times and manners than ours,—but not all. Thackeray
Borrow represents himself as tyrannically imposing himself upon the girl as teacher of Armenian, enlivening the instruction with the one mild double entendre, of “I decline a mistress.” George Borrow The Man and His Books
It was impossible to think of telling her a nasty story, a "double entendre" fell flat when she was there. My War Experiences in Two Continents
The engineer burst into a laugh, which sounded very hollow there, and then we noticed the double entendre, and mutual explanations ensued. Roumania Past and Present
Although far from being an expert in the Burmese language, he had caught the drift of this sentence—a coarse double entendre, which he could not possibly interpret to a girl. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma
Then Lady Mary! how brilliant is her slightest turn! how she banters Pope—how she gives double entendre for double entendre to Hervey! The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
No person of decency, still less of delicacy, will be guilty of double entendre. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society
This effectually suppresses any tendency to facetiousness, or what respectable English people call double entendre, and brings you en rapport with the serious people who read these publications. Certain Personal Matters
Observe the double entendre on the word King. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
There was a double entendre about the "very naturally" which Sir Lucius chose, rightly or wrongly, to interpret to his own disadvantage. In Friendship's Guise
Somebody called it, with a rather cruel double entendre, Bertie Willis' last word. The Real Adventure
The prudery which sits in solemn and severe rebuke at a double entendre is only second in indelicacy to the indecency which grows hilarious over it, since both must recognize the evil intent. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society
And wasn't what he had just said very like what the French call a double entendre? Christopher and Columbus
He had spoken with double entendre, but she did not perceive it until too late. The Rocks of Valpre
Our journalists have used more often the incorrect phrase double entendre than the French critics the phrase double entente, which is the term that our writers intend to employ. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
The Normans failed to see the "double entendre" of this reply. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune
He always professed a sort of passion for the Queen at St. Germain's; and his letters were to her in the style of what the French call double entendre. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings
"They would want to be 'in it'" I looked at him quickly to see whether his remark had a double entendre. The "Goldfish"
Though his comedies are horribly full of double entendre, yet 'twas owing to a false complaisance. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author
They both roared at the double entendre of kid. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel
This was greeted with an irreverent laugh, and the youth blushed deeply, and tried to look as if he had meant to insinuate what knowing people called a "double entendre." The Age of Innocence
The writer is too dull even for a double entendre, as you will hear. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
Far from obscenity, therefore, do not so much as touch upon the double entendre. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4
He had a deft way even now of planting a double entendre when he took the trouble. The Sowers
The double entendre of the swoon is entirely wanting in the Western tale, as is the apparent harmlessness of the medium of death. Algonquin Legends of New England
Contrast their blameless wit and humor with the equivoque and foul double entendre of French drawings, and think of the difference involuntarily suggested between the social atmospheres of Paris and London. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe
There is no double entendre in the characters of Chaucer: they are either quite serious or quite comic. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
The word may be chosen because it admits of another interpretation, the double entendre of which might be kept up in English by using the expression "sleeping" partnership. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
But bilal also signifies "moisture" or "beneficence," "benefits": it may be intended for a double entendre but I prefer the metonymy. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement]
Now large teeth do not lend themselves to well-spoken comedy scenes, to smiles, or to double entendre. The Elusive Pimpernel
An anonymous double entendre was not precisely evidence on which to found a rupture of the marital tie. Fraternity
This was no conventional—if the double entendre may be permitted—demonstration. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
He could give us no idea, he said, of the wit of the Egyptian women, and their skill in double entendre; nor, I presume, did we lose much by our ignorance. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
That's an elegant double entendre on Wordsworth's poem and the War Department. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories
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