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单词 mother-in-law joke
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mother-in-law joke
mother-in-law joke n. a joke made at the expense of the joke-teller's (real or fictitious) mother-in-law; this type of joke considered (esp. depreciatively) as a genre.
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1885 Cent. Mag. Mar. 798 That utter abomination, the mother-in-law joke, which after years of active service is not permitted the honorable discharge it has earned.
1919 Science 7 Feb. 147 Stories of the victims of this disease too often get into the funny papers in the same column with the mother-in-law jokes.
2001 Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 3 h Newhart's odd brand of comedy initially proved hard to sell in a nightclub culture dominated by mother-in-law jokes.
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