jeu de mots
Example Sentences
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Now and again he chuckled as some jeu de mots hit the mark and drew a quick gust of laughter from the unseen audience.
From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Whence the following jeu de mots: "Le mur, murant Paris, rend Paris murmurout."
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.
"Come, come, you little humbug, take off that gigantic sacque, and sit down here; upun my word I won't make any more of those nasty jeu de mots."
From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by Vera, [pseud.]
The audience thereupon exclaimed, "Languille crie avant qu'on l'�corche;" and hence the "jeu de mots," and the proverb.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
My first impression, on ascertaining this result, was one of horror at the treasonable "jeu de mots" I had so unwittingly perpetrated.
