jeu de mots

“I remember my father having to explain himself, and his lyrics, because he plays with the jeu de mots, how do you say that? When you play with the sounds of the words, like a double meaning?”

Was it a verbal faux pas, or a jeu de mots gone wrong?

Like the emperor himself, Alexandra Petri’s example of Napoleonic jeu de mots came up short.

My first impression, on ascertaining this result, was one of horror at the treasonable "jeu de mots" I had so unwittingly perpetrated.

The audience thereupon exclaimed, "Languille crie avant qu'on l'�corche;" and hence the "jeu de mots," and the proverb.