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