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