Sentences with phrase «entendre meaning»

It's so funny how much more interesting and hilarious your childhood shows become as you grow older, wiser, and understand what a double entendre means.

The double entendres meant to test and tease a culture on the verge of a sexual revolution are exploded here in an era where unembarrassed vulgarity and scatological humour are the rule of the day in comedies — sexual or otherwise.

Not exact matches

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

A double entendre or just a poor grasp of word meanings?

Our story contains too many double entendres and ironic twists for me, or anyone else, to exhaust its meaning.

In the first sequel, Meet the Fockers, the addition of Greg's eccentric folks, Roz and Bernie (Barbara Streisand and Dustin Hoffman), to the mix meant half the humor took a turn towards tawdry double entendres.

Getting reviews, doing blog tours, posting guest blogs, even radio interviews are priceless in marketing your book and I mean that as a double entendre»: they are usually free and you get sometimes huge audience exposure!

Much like a surrealist trompe l'oeil, the play on the image and the double entendre of the title Night Lie gives new meaning to the romance of Paris, the city of love.

This is of course a double entendre, the other meaning being what Karpov refers to as rendering «the physical world of her imagination.»