Tropescilloscope: Double Entendre

Using a phrase with an obvious innocent meaning, but also a taboo or sexual meaning. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Ship Tease Twist Ending Psychological Thriller Police Brutality French Films Christmas Movies Index Loads and Loads of Characters Central Theme Skewed Priorities The Quiet One Bittersweet Ending Broken Aesop Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Non-Indicative Name Pyrrhic Victory Contrived Coincidence My Greatest Failure Bound and Gagged Antagonist Title Hypocrite An Aesop Rape as Drama Noodle Incident Demoted to Extra Deal with the Devil Faux Affably Evil Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The '80s Dies Wide Open Decoy Protagonist Wham Line Put on a Bus Beta Couple NO INDOOR VOICE Mistaken for Gay Cain and Abel Sports Stories Double Entendre Daddy's Girl Genre Throwback Insistent Terminology Running Gag Missing Mom Self-Deprecation Determinator aka: The Determinator Henpecked Husband All Girls Want Bad Boys Anyone Can Die Lampshade Hanging Call-Forward Fainting Dark Reprise Small Name, Big Ego Ripped from the Headlines Jerkass Has a Point The Sociopath Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Bond Villain Stupidity Punch-Clock Villain Pimped-Out Dress Say My Name Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Meaningful Name Animal Title Index Hero Antagonist MacGuffin Freeze-Frame Bonus Rated M for Manly Word of God Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Vitriolic Best Buds Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The Smurfette Principle Adorkable Cool Car Badass Longcoat Even Evil Has Standards Fantasy Films Broken Bird Your Head A-Splode It's Personal Badass Boast Riddle for the Ages Agony of the Feet I Did What I Had to Do The End... Or Is It? Red Oni, Blue Oni Shown Their Work Stalker with a Crush Our Zombies Are Different Mythology Gag Outrun the Fireball Mugging the Monster Silence Is Golden Man on Fire No Antagonist A Minor Kidroduction Covers Always Lie Evil Is Hammy Bar Brawl Bond One-Liner Humans Are Bastards Jerk Jock Parental Incest Abusive Parents Homage Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Freudian Excuse Blackmail Crazy-Prepared Black Dude Dies First Big Brother Instinct Jerk with a Heart of Gold Nothing Is Scarier Gorn Big Eater The Smart Guy Red Eyes, Take Warning Rule of Funny Offscreen Teleportation Berserk Button Moment Killer Papa Wolf Amusing Injuries Intrepid Reporter Important Haircut Faking the Dead Enemy Mine Anti-Villain Sealed Evil in a Can Advertised Extra Adaptation Name Change Disproportionate Retribution The Lancer Break the Cutie The Power of Love She's Got Legs Product Placement Spell My Name with an "S" Laser-Guided Karma Deliberate Values Dissonance Pragmatic Adaptation Made of Iron The Film of the Book Flashback Sequel Escalation Historical In-Joke Vomit Indiscretion Shot Unusual Euphemism The Remake Death Glare Totally Radical Batman Gambit Ambiguous Disorder Cowboy Cop Black Comedy Air-Vent Passageway Every Car Is a Pinto Adaptation Expansion Star-Crossed Lovers Creative Closing Credits Corpsing Bald of Evil Belligerent Sexual Tension Hollywood Darkness My God, What Have I Done? Drill Sergeant Nasty Parental Neglect Fanservice Extra Australian Movies Retirony Wounded Gazelle Gambit Hidden Depths Not Even Bothering with the Accent War Is Hell Betty and Veronica Not So Above It All Actor Allusion The Place Parental Abandonment Whole Plot Reference Market-Based Title Dark Action Girl No Ending Thriller Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Bully Villain Protagonist Rich Bitch Fan Disservice As Himself Deadpan Snarker Actually Pretty Funny Author Avatar Horror Comedy Only Known by Their Nickname Children Are Innocent Stylistic Suck Take That! Wretched Hive Naïve Newcomer Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Babies Ever After Femme Fatale Insane Troll Logic Call-Back Breaking the Fourth Wall Knight Templar Cassandra Truth For Want of a Nail Scenery Gorn Mighty Whitey From Nobody to Nightmare Bi the Way Action Prologue Match Cut Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Spared by the Adaptation Reality Ensues Damsel in Distress Aside Glance Despair Event Horizon Death by Irony timeperiod Kill It with Fire Unusually Uninteresting Sight Big Applesauce Conspicuous CG Dirty Old Man Sinister Minister Canon Foreigner Irony A Father to His Men Historical Villain Upgrade Informed Ability Alpha Bitch Establishing Character Moment Tranquil Fury Romantic Comedy And Starring Overprotective Dad Knife Nut BFG Epic Fail Final Girl Foil No Name Given Anachronism Stew Revenge Darker and Edgier Improbable Weapon User Disney Death Dual Wielding Stuff Blowing Up Meaningful Background Event Early-Bird Cameo Jitter Cam Bring My Brown Pants Superhero Evil Sounds Deep Chewing the Scenery Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Affectionate Parody Extremely Short Timespan Big Damn Heroes Red Right Hand Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Honor Before Reason Brutal Honesty Department of Redundancy Department Shoot the Shaggy Dog Chekhov's Gunman Playing Gertrude Setting Update Badass Normal Red Herring Broken Pedestal Re-Cut Imagine Spot Oh, Crap! All There in the Manual More Dakka Suddenly SHOUTING! Frame-Up Punny Name Ax-Crazy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Novelization Evil vs. Evil Empathic Environment Defrosting Ice Queen Eureka Moment Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Super Strength Not So Different Big Bad Duumvirate Flipping the Bird As the Good Book Says... He Knows Too Much Body Horror Daylight Horror Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Karmic Death I Want My Beloved to Be Happy No-Sell I Need a Freaking Drink Malevolent Masked Men Diabolus ex Machina Fish out of Water Early Installment Weirdness Armor-Piercing Question Music Stories Ungrateful Bastard Kubrick Stare Same Language Dub Heel Realization Fourth Date Marriage Once More, with Clarity! The Starscream Narrator The Mole Mood Whiplash Disney Villain Death Badass in a Nice Suit Rousing Speech Loophole Abuse Hollywood Law Smug Snake Exactly What It Says on the Tin Token Minority Taking You with Me Aluminum Christmas Trees Curb-Stomp Battle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Lock and Load Montage She Cleans Up Nicely The '90s Attempted Rape Gory Discretion Shot Dull Surprise Serial Killer Amoral Attorney Dramedy Apocalypse How Bury Your Gays Celebrity Paradox Kill 'em All Plot Hole Vampire Fiction Drowning My Sorrows The Ace Ominous Latin Chanting The Great Depression Military and Warfare Films Butt-Monkey Animal Motifs Victoria's Secret Compartment Humiliation Conga Posthumous Character Creepy Child Truth in Television Catch-Phrase Leave the Camera Running Room Full of Crazy And the Adventure Continues Film Noir I'm a Humanitarian Canadian Movies Instant Death Bullet Greater-Scope Villain Mama Bear Character Development Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Gone Horribly Right Italian Films Line-of-Sight Name Bunny-Ears Lawyer Friend to All Children Beauty Is Never Tarnished Gainax Ending Shut Up, Hannibal! Based on a True Story Eyepatch of Power World of Ham The Ditz Nice Guy Logo Joke The Reveal No Celebrities Were Harmed Off-into-the-Distance Ending Suspiciously Specific Denial Defiant to the End Improvised Weapon Stepford Smiler The Hero After the End Authority Equals Asskicking Zombie Stories Killed Mid-Sentence And I Must Scream Race Lift Dropped a Bridge on Him Costume Porn Drives Like Crazy British Films Laughing Mad Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Spiteful Spit Psycho for Hire The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Villainous Breakdown Ironic Echo Spanner in the Works Fanservice Badass Bookworm Reasonable Authority Figure Adaptational Badass True Companions Artistic License – Law Crapsack World Bad "Bad Acting" Your Cheating Heart Curse Cut Short German Films Insult Backfire Really Gets Around Dressing as the Enemy The Mafia Film Series Mundane Made Awesome Slasher Movie Dying Moment of Awesome As You Know Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Load The Cavalry Better to Die than Be Killed Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Well-Intentioned Extremist Those Two Bad Guys Awesome, but Impractical Big "NO!" Eye Scream Driven to Suicide Offscreen Moment of Awesome Wham Shot Last-Name Basis Fiery Redhead Wicked Cultured The Hero Dies Vomit Discretion Shot Coming-of-Age Story Back from the Dead Jump Scare Sadistic Choice Evil Counterpart Those Wacky Nazis Does This Remind You of Anything? The '50s Ambiguous Ending Off with His Head! Bad Boss Black Comedy Rape Face–Heel Turn Intergenerational Friendship Up to Eleven All for Nothing Extreme Doormat Tagline Even Evil Has Loved Ones Never Found the Body Half the Man He Used to Be Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bait-and-Switch Bloodless Carnage Hooker with a Heart of Gold Cold-Blooded Torture Good Is Not Nice Roaring Rampage of Revenge Guile Hero Serious Business Shirtless Scene Grievous Bottley Harm The Dreaded Demonic Possession Famous Last Words Rasputinian Death Fantastic Racism Car Fu Television Movie Index Cool Shades Handicapped Badass Chase Scene Villain Song Arch-Enemy Scenery Porn N-Word Privileges Training Montage Dwindling Party The Faceless You Have Failed Me Blood from the Mouth Implacable Man Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Adult Fear "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Ass Shove O.O.C. Is Serious Business Auto Erotica Neck Lift All There in the Script Science Fiction Films Crucified Hero Shot Mr. Fanservice Hell Is That Noise Sanity Slippage Dark Is Not Evil Eldritch Abomination Precision F-Strike Have a Gay Old Time Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Country Matters Ascended Extra Reality Is Unrealistic Monumental Damage Police are Useless Double-Meaning Title Pay Evil unto Evil Evil Is Petty Everyone Has Standards Cloudcuckoolander Morality Pet Shout-Out Beware the Nice Ones Manchild The Vamp Peek-a-Boo Corpse "The Reason You Suck" Speech Refuge in Audacity Alas, Poor Villain Documentary Japanese Films Heterosexual Life-Partners Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Major Injury Underreaction There Is No Kill Like Overkill Translation Convention Very Loosely Based on a True Story Tap on the Head Hong Kong Films Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Visual Pun Chiaroscuro Expy Failed a Spot Check Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Drugs Are Bad Anti-Hero Real Life Unspoken Plan Guarantee Motor Mouth Only in It for the Money Camera Abuse Not Using the "Z" Word Beard of Evil Names to Run Away from Really Fast Due to the Dead Male Frontal Nudity Interrupted Suicide Facial Horror Badass Grandpa Fire-Forged Friends The Ghost Obfuscating Stupidity A Date with Rosie Palms Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sacrificial Lion Cool Guns Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds I Have Your Wife Death by Adaptation Straight Gay folderlabel Action Genre Sir Swears-a-Lot The Stoner The Brute Rule of Three Bullying a Dragon Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Madness Mantra A God Am I Dramatic Gun Cock Fingore May–December Romance Our Vampires Are Different Mad Scientist Meet Cute Casting Gag Author Appeal Paper-Thin Disguise Mr. Exposition Deliberately Monochrome Big Fancy House Mooks Credits Gag Video Credits Ambiguously Gay Animated Credits Opening Artistic License – Physics Arranged Marriage Adaptational Villainy Naked People Are Funny It Can Think Almost Kiss From Bad to Worse Eagleland For the Evulz Vacation Films What You Are in the Dark Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Leaning on the Fourth Wall Adaptation Distillation Funny Background Event Film Noir Index Index of Film Westerns Break the Haughty Immune to Bullets Kick the Dog Random Events Plot Russian Films Destination Defenestration Did Not Get the Girl Let's Get Dangerous! Kids Are Cruel Bland-Name Product Sexy Discretion Shot Dirty Cop Never My Fault Dumb Blonde Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Voiceless Never Trust a Trailer Epic Movie Villain Ball Artistic License – Military Woman in White Stealth Hi/Bye Sole Survivor Retcon Together in Death Foregone Conclusion Green-Eyed Monster Bowdlerise Fake Shemp Five-Man Band "Shaggy Dog" Story You Killed My Father Too Dumb to Live Mexican Standoff Camp Gay Death of a Child Rewatch Bonus In Name Only Sequel Hook Cat Scare Anguished Declaration of Love The Big Guy The Cameo Easily Forgiven Disappeared Dad Big Bad Storming the Castle Groin Attack Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Book-Ends Parental Substitute Needs Wiki Magic Love Married to the Job Cruel and Unusual Death Card-Carrying Villain Closed Circle Hope Spot Trailers Always Spoil Psychopathic Manchild Slashed Throat Men Are the Expendable Gender Manly Tears La Résistance Boom, Headshot! Four-Temperament Ensemble The Stoic Fate Worse than Death Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Bilingual Bonus Pretty in Mink Title Drop Disguised in Drag Cool Old Lady Creator Cameo Heroic Sacrifice Retired Badass Horror Films It Will Never Catch On The Bad Guy Wins Reckless Gun Usage Tempting Fate The '60s Love at First Sight Unreliable Narrator Obstructive Bureaucrat Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Chekhov's Skill Eiffel Tower Effect Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dutch Angle Poor Communication Kills Girl-on-Girl Is Hot B-Movie Undying Loyalty Determinator Deconstruction My Beloved Smother Stealth Pun Here We Go Again! Manic Pixie Dream Girl Cool Old Guy Obviously Evil Bare Your Midriff Get Out! Heroes Want Redheads Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Take a Third Option Heel–Face Turn All Just a Dream Evil Laugh In Medias Res Protagonist Title The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Geography Deus ex Machina Guns Akimbo The Un-Reveal Karma Houdini Redshirt Army Properly Paranoid An Axe to Grind Genre Shift Adaptation Dye-Job Would Hurt a Child Left the Background Music On Only One Name Not What It Looks Like Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hair-Trigger Temper Artistic License – Biology Action Survivor Nice Hat Adaptational Heroism This Is Gonna Suck You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Evil Plan Shower Scene Blatant Lies Politically Incorrect Villain Happily Married Abhorrent Admirer Genre Savvy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Overly Long Gag Public Domain Feature Films Asshole Victim Plucky Comic Relief Corrupt Corporate Executive Dirty Coward Large Ham I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Brainless Beauty Villain Opening Scene Manipulative Bastard Foreshadowing Meaningful Echo The Stinger Smoking Is Cool Rule of Cool Exact Words Older Than They Look Toplessness from the Back Alliterative Name Taking the Bullet Blood Knight "Awesome McCool" Name Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Took a Level in Jerkass The Casanova Black Best Friend Artistic License – Gun Safety Hero of Another Story Age Lift Gilligan Cut Those Two Guys Captain Obvious Continuity Nod Big-Bad Ensemble As Long as It Sounds Foreign Artistic License – History Shipper on Deck What the Hell, Hero? No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Villain with Good Publicity He Who Fights Monsters 20 Minutes into the Future Leitmotif Danny Peary Cult Movies List Idiot Ball Took a Level in Badass Real Life Writes the Plot Scare Chord Not So Stoic Cluster F-Bomb Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Martial Arts Movie Bloody Hilarious All Men Are Perverts Combat Pragmatist Light Is Not Good Fatal Flaw "Well Done, Son!" Guy Woman Scorned In the Back Recycled IN SPACE! Dark and Troubled Past Bolivian Army Ending Sassy Black Woman Time Skip Comically Missing the Point Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Kick the Son of a Bitch Yandere Dissonant Serenity Funny Foreigner Framing Device Not Quite Dead Brother–Sister Incest Grey and Gray Morality Red Shirt Bottomless Magazines Calling the Old Man Out Works Set in World War II Bloodier and Gorier Hypocritical Humor Affably Evil Redemption Equals Death Action Girl Chekhov's Gun The Alcoholic The Chick Slap-Slap-Kiss '80s Hair Death Seeker Expository Hairstyle Change Mystery and Detective Films Soft Glass Gender Flip Arc Words Death by Sex Show Within a Show Does Not Like Shoes The Musical Heroic BSoD Pet the Dog Made of Explodium One-Word Title The Atoner One-Man Army Pragmatic Villainy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pretty Little Headshots The Chessmaster Hoist by His Own Petard Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Lost Lenore Gold Digger Stock Footage Mercy Kill Composite Character Romantic False Lead Neck Snap Brick Joke No OSHA Compliance Mind Screw Annoying Younger Sibling Worthy Opponent Hate Sink The Alleged Car Captain Ersatz Bavarian Fire Drill Cat Fight Improbable Aiming Skills Downer Ending Evil Brit Jerkass Reality Has No Subtitles Dogged Nice Guy How We Got Here Award-Bait Song Earn Your Happy Ending Darkest Hour Biopic Catapult Nightmare An Arm and a Leg Fun with Acronyms Make It Look Like an Accident Lighter and Softer Sci-Fi Horror Accidental Misnaming Unresolved Sexual Tension The '70s Anachronic Order Historical Hero Upgrade Male Gaze Getting Crap Past the Radar Shell-Shocked Veteran Depraved Bisexual What Happened to the Mouse? Soundtrack Dissonance Becoming the Mask Spiritual Successor Race Against the Clock Only a Flesh Wound Would Hit a Girl The Dragon Rule of Symbolism A.I. Is a Crapshoot Domestic Abuse Adaptational Attractiveness Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Adults Are Useless Evil-Detecting Dog Face Death with Dignity Adapted Out Ghost Fiction Fatal Family Photo The Oner Gratuitous English Crazy Jealous Guy Fat Bastard It's All About Me Silent Movie Wrong Genre Savvy Scary Black Man Ms. Fanservice Didn't Think This Through Distracted by the Sexy One Steve Limit Accidental Murder Historical-Domain Character Love Triangle The X of Y Only Sane Man Black and Gray Morality Dramatic Irony Be Careful What You Wish For Slasher Smile Maybe Ever After Developing Doomed Characters