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WarJay77
(Troper Knight)
6th Jun, 2020 07:58:35 PM
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Mac_R
(Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
6th Jun, 2020 08:30:40 PM
Thanks!
Is there a trope about the joke format wherein an adjective doesn't refer to what the viewer thinks it does? Like, a Great White Hunter is just someone who hunts great whites, a man who shot an elephant in his pyjamas wasn't wearing pyjamas (the elephant was) and so on
Edited by Mac_R