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double entendre

noun as in play on words

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Hoping to give her blessing and her mother’s wedding ring to her son — “The Family Stone” remains a very clever double entendre — Sybil’s plans are quickly thwarted by this realization.

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Yes, the “A-minor” double entendre was catchy, and it is always good to have Mustard on the beat.

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The series’ title is a meta double entendre referencing the strife we put ourselves through just trying to keep up appearances, as well as Skinner’s creative style.

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She has fun with shock value at first, ditching the double entendre to straight up say “come right on me,” but jokingly corrects herself as if becoming shy, replacing it with the similar word “camaraderie.”

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The lack of subversion extends to the score, a bland assemblage of British music hall pastiche that stretches its comedic wings most confidently toward double entendre.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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