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
Bryce Harper gave the Phillies a brief scare when he hurt his funny bone in a collision at first base in Game 4.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 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
Scientists have yet to definitively find a funny bone, but they are revealing nuances about the laugh impulse.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2023
Except under pretty rare circumstances, in any crisis, when I was nineteen, my funny bone invariably had the distinction of being the very first part of my body to assume partial or complete paralysis.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
