Tropescilloscope: Double Entendre

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

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Woman in White Cruel and Unusual Death Dogged Nice Guy Pimped-Out Dress Bittersweet Ending Belligerent Sexual Tension Dropped a Bridge on Him Every Car Is a Pinto Disappeared Dad Instant Death Bullet Real Life Writes the Plot Laughing Mad Stealth Pun Bound and Gagged Maybe Ever After Improvised Weapon Pyrrhic Victory Mistaken for Gay Early Installment Weirdness Dramatic Gun Cock Cool Car Car Fu Broken Bird Star-Crossed Lovers Mr. Fanservice Death Seeker Mythology Gag Left the Background Music On I Did What I Had to Do The Quiet One Anti-Hero Music Stories Overly Long Gag Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Imagine Spot Crazy-Prepared Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Cluster F-Bomb For Want of a Nail An Axe to Grind Eagleland The Dog Bites Back Crucified Hero Shot Handicapped Badass Badass Longcoat The End... Or Is It? "Where Are They Now?" 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Adorkable Pre-Mortem One-Liner Brainless Beauty Those Wacky Nazis The Oner Leaning on the Fourth Wall Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Japanese Films Precision F-Strike Implacable Man Bi the Way Even Evil Has Loved Ones Evil Is Hammy The Ace Anti-Villain Neck Lift Defiant to the End Idiot Ball Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Deus ex Machina Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Alleged Car Obviously Evil Honor Before Reason Drowning My Sorrows Paper-Thin Disguise Red Right Hand Hope Spot Men Are the Expendable Gender Flashback Woman Scorned Married to the Job Vampire Fiction From Bad to Worse The Lost Lenore No-Holds-Barred Beatdown British Films Fun with Acronyms Breaking the Fourth Wall Important Haircut Heroic Sacrifice Genre Savvy Male Gaze Improbable Aiming Skills Humans Are Bastards Dying Moment of Awesome Wham Line Facial Horror Only in It for the Money Annoying Younger Sibling Pretty in Mink And the Adventure Continues Sexy Discretion Shot Naïve Newcomer Faking the Dead Outrun the Fireball Drill Sergeant Nasty Fatal Family Photo Works Set in World War II Bar Brawl Madness Mantra Tempting Fate Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Alpha Bitch Shirtless Scene Pragmatic Villainy As Long as It Sounds Foreign French Films Better to Die than Be Killed And I Must Scream Sequel Hook Not So Above It All Final Girl Green-Eyed Monster Hong Kong Films Karmic Death Gender Flip All There in the Script Captain Obvious Ripped from the Headlines Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The '80s Red Oni, Blue Oni Heel–Face Turn The Vamp Did Not Get the Girl Dark Reprise Eye Scream Fate Worse than Death Dwindling Party Up to Eleven Broken Aesop Hell Is That Noise Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Stock Footage Monumental Damage Awesome, but Impractical O.O.C. Is Serious Business It Can Think Creepy Child The Place Demonic Possession Shell-Shocked Veteran Tap on the Head Friend to All Children Names to Run Away from Really Fast Defrosting Ice Queen An Arm and a Leg Not Even Bothering with the Accent Badass Grandpa Gorn Artistic License – Physics Death of a Child Fanservice Extra Slasher Movie Christmas Movies Index Skewed Priorities Arranged Marriage Disney Death Mexican Standoff Curb-Stomp Battle Sinister Minister He Knows Too Much "The Reason You Suck" Speech Award-Bait Song How We Got Here Flipping the Bird Get Out! 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Only a Flesh Wound She Cleans Up Nicely Leave the Camera Running Blatant Lies Cool Shades Race Against the Clock Freudian Excuse Happily Married The X of Y Action Girl Meaningful Background Event Kids Are Cruel Animated Credits Opening Riddle for the Ages Double-Meaning Title Artistic License – History Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Amusing Injuries Dramedy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Would Hit a Girl Truth in Television Getting Crap Past the Radar Alliterative Name Dies Wide Open Air-Vent Passageway Destination Defenestration It's All About Me Historical-Domain Character Canon Foreigner Those Two Bad Guys Manic Pixie Dream Girl Mercy Kill Trailers Always Spoil Punch-Clock Villain Random Events Plot Room Full of Crazy One-Man Army Shoot the Shaggy Dog Chekhov's Skill Antagonist Title Closed Circle Unspoken Plan Guarantee Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Artistic License – Military Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Kill 'em All Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Artistic License – Gun Safety Chekhov's Gunman My Greatest Failure My Beloved Smother Determinator aka: The Determinator Posthumous Character Serial Killer Vomit Indiscretion Shot Damsel in Distress No Antagonist Dramatic Irony A Date with Rosie Palms Psychopathic Manchild Action Genre Hypocrite Affably Evil Hoist by His Own Petard Disguised in Drag Bond One-Liner Bunny-Ears Lawyer Gory Discretion Shot Big Bad The Casanova Ominous Latin Chanting Big Damn Heroes Mind Screw Exact Words Parental Neglect Gold Digger Obfuscating Stupidity Brother–Sister Incest Running Gag Video Credits Horror Comedy Call-Back Arc Words Noodle Incident The '50s Spared by the Adaptation Does This Remind You of Anything? The Smurfette Principle Vacation Films Casting Gag Drugs Are Bad Epic Movie Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Ungrateful Bastard Dull Surprise Artistic License – Biology Black Dude Dies First Loophole Abuse Camp Gay Film Noir Arch-Enemy Cool Guns The Remake Retcon Only Known by Their Nickname Ambiguously Gay Revenge Oh, Crap! Small Name, Big Ego As Himself Australian Movies Token Minority Romantic Comedy Homage World of Ham Bilingual Bonus Early-Bird Cameo Funny Foreigner Adaptational Attractiveness Creative Closing Credits Hero of Another Story Corrupt Corporate Executive Affectionate Parody Abhorrent Admirer Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Attempted Rape Real Life Hair-Trigger Temper Take That! One-Word Title Determinator Dumb Blonde Superhero Parental Incest Villainous Breakdown Training Montage Chewing the Scenery Scenery Gorn Call-Forward Properly Paranoid Death by Irony BFG 20 Minutes into the Future Not So Different Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Camera Abuse Fire-Forged Friends Evil vs. Evil Cowboy Cop Abusive Parents Horror Films Beta Couple Batman Gambit Shipper on Deck Time Skip Military and Warfare Films There Is No Kill Like Overkill Evil Counterpart Adaptational Heroism Canadian Movies Big-Bad Ensemble Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Historical Hero Upgrade Intergenerational Friendship Rasputinian Death Offscreen Teleportation Missing Mom No Name Given Disney Villain Death Russian Films Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Expansion Leitmotif Love Triangle Manly Tears Spiritual Successor Gilligan Cut Decoy Protagonist