jeu de mots
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It is simply a jeu de mots, and no more, though funny enough as it stands.
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by William Davenport Adams
"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 [pseud.] Vera
My first impression, on ascertaining this result, was one of horror at the treasonable "jeu de mots" I had so unwittingly perpetrated.
Whence the following jeu de mots: "Le mur, murant Paris, rend Paris murmurout."
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
"And yet I have heard your Grace indulge in the jeu de mots," answered the attendant.
From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott
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