"joke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Irish jokes are a class of jokes, generally based on stereotypes of the Irish people.
- A simpler joke, based on the Bush Dunce model, is used.
- Another joke based on the use of a word containing only letters from the first six in the alphabet (and thus those used in hexadecimal) is...
- It's an extended joke based on the notion that ruthlessness is funny.
- The plot provides the setup for a string of sight gags, puns, jokes based on Asian stereotypes, and general farce.
- It can even be a joke based on the latest highly publicized disaster.
- An example of a joke based on double meaning is recorded in Gellius (2nd century AD):
- True culture demanded that that remark be accepted as a friendly joke, probably based on a truth-how else could an unpalatable truth be put in words?
- The film is essentially a shaggy dog story, leading up to a single play-on-words joke based on "beaver" also being a euphemism for female genitals.
- Nevertheless, in German there are a series of jokes based on a variety of meanings, while English uses several words.
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