单词 | to tickle a person's funny bone |
释义 | > as lemmasto tickle a person's funny bone 2. figurative. This part of the body regarded as representing a person's sense of humour; (hence more simply) a sense of humour. Frequently in to tickle a person's funny bone: to appeal to a person's sense of humour. ΚΠ 1830 H. Smith Midsummer Medley II. 80 I leave, by an especial clause, To friend Tom Hood my funny bone, Though much inferior to his own. 1862 Birmingham Daily Post 22 Nov. 3/6 A man without a merry thought Can hardly have a funny-bone. 1887 Delta (Pa.) Herald 7 Jan. He will certainly tickle your funny bone with his side splitting comicalities. 1902 Daily Chron. 12 June 3/3 Two principal figures and a few carefully careless scratches—that is all Mr. Raven-Hill uses in the pointing of his joke, but he hits the universal funny-bone with his pencil. 1957 T. R. Cates Drainpipe Diary 63 These stealthy and torrid little love scenes should have tickled my funny-bone. Instead it made me infinitely sad. 1998 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 6 Feb. 59 If he has tickled your funny bone previously, you will find much to laugh at here. 2009 P. Lopate Notes on Sontag 142 She let fly a cruel, contemptuous chortle that did suggest she had a funny-bone. < as lemmas |
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