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