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