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Lodgings to Let, an 1814 engraving featuring a double entendre. He: "My sweet honey, I hope you are to be let with the Lodgins!" She: "No, sir, I am to be let alone".. A double entendre [note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that ...
The phrase "said the actress to the bishop" is a colloquial British exclamation, offering humour by serving as a punch line that exposes an unintended double entendre. An equivalent phrase in North America is "that's what she said". [1] The versatility of such phrases, and their popularity, lead some to consider them clichéd. [2]
These Halloween puns and funny one-liners about pumpkins, witches and other scary staples are bound to get you laughing and are perfect for Instagram captions.
One newspaper predicted it would "probably be banned in Boston and on the networks." [4] In 2014, Salon rated "Big Long Slidin' Thing" as one of the 19 greatest double entendre songs of all time. [5] The record was dedicated to Washington's boyfriend and trombonist, Gus Chappell.
The Rambling Syd sketches generally began with a short discourse on the nature of the song, which would inexorably follow. The discourses and the songs involved suggestiveness and double entendre. Rambling Syd was customarily introduced by Kenneth Horne, who would set things up by (for example) inquiring as to the nature and origin of the song ...
"Les Sucettes" ("Lollipops") is a French pop song written by Serge Gainsbourg and first recorded by France Gall in 1966. One of Gall's biggest hits, it was an unusually risqué song for its time, containing numerous sexually-charged double-entendres, although she had said that she was unaware of this at the time.
Continuing the double entendre, the song also expresses the need for "a little hot dog between my rolls" and concludes, "Stop your foolin' and drop somethin' in my bowl." [ 22 ] In an article published in the journal American Music , ethnomusicologist Henrietta Yurchenco praised the song as an early example of a female performer speaking "in ...