funny bone
Example Sentences
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"You can just take the mick out of that and people get it from just one line. It sometimes tickles that. You know, like that funny bone."
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Harper finished the game, said he was fine and had just stung his funny bone.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Maybe Steiner tickled your funny bone, maybe not, but “deliver a condolence card” conveyed the gravity of the moment better than the similarly generic “going out to settle him down.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
As Mary Higgins Clark put it in an interview with Newsday in 2000: “A reviewer once said, ‘Mary Higgins Clark goes for the jugular vein and Carol Higgins Clark goes for the funny bone.’
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
There had never been and would never be anything funny about a funny bone.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
