| 单词 | little audrey joke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLittle Audrey joke Little Audrey joke n. [compare to laugh like little Audrey at Phrases 1d] a joke featuring a character ‘Little Audrey’, who is said in the punchline to ‘laugh and laugh’, and usually involving a pun, double entendre, or unpleasant irony (see quots.). ΚΠ 1934 Oak Park (Illinois) Leaves 22 Mar. 35/2 Beginning this week we are going to hold a Little Audrey joke contest... And now we present number one: Little Audrey's father tried to convince little Audrey the other day that he was French, but little Audrey just laughed and laughed, because she knew that her daddy had a lot of Scotch in him. 1941 Virginia Spectator May 10/2 The reason there are no more Little Audrey jokes is because she went out into the kitchen and Kelvinator. 1944 View Dec. 137/3 The war occasionally turns up a good item in the news, like the recent little Audrey joke: ‘It seems this marine had been discharged and returned to his home town. Here he was again classified and called for induction. But he just laughed and laughed. Why did he just laugh and laugh? Because he had been blinded at Guadalcanal and couldn't serve anyway.’ 1976 Times 1 Apr. 17/7 In 1938-39, when I was at preparatory school, there was a craze for ‘Little Audrey’ jokes. These always ended: ‘Little Audrey laughed and laughed and laughed, for she knew very well..’. 2008 R. White Little Audrey ii. 18 That's what always happens in Little Audrey jokes. She gets into these hopeless situations, and still she finds something to laugh about. < as lemmas |
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