Tag: idiom pun

This single-panel reaction meme features top text above a still of a distraught, bearded man with minor facial injuries, teary eyes, and a devastated, defeated expression. The top text reads 'When you are a doctor and your crush eats an apple a day.' The joke relies on the common English idiom 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away', implying that the doctor's crush's daily apple consumption will prevent the doctor from being able to interact with or pursue her romantically, leaving him with zero chance of a relationship, matching the despair shown in the reaction image.

No Chance For Doctor With Crush Who Eats An Apple A Day

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This is a single-panel pet meme featuring a dilute calico cat with large bright green eyes, posed resting its cheek on a tiny plastic human hand prop, looking directly at the viewer with an extremely attentive, focused expression. Text at the top of the image reads "When my friend asks if I have time for a heart-to-heart", and text at the bottom reads "I am all ears!". The humor comes from a pun on the common English idiom "I am all ears", which figuratively means someone is fully ready and willing to listen carefully, paired with the visual gag of the cat appearing to lean in intently to hear what their friend has to say.

Attentive Cat 'I Am All Ears' Friend Heart To Heart Meme

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This image is a screenshot of a public Reddit question thread. The opening post asks users to share the most ridiculous thing they did as a child. A top comment from user u/BagelStealer42 recounts a humorous childhood story: when the commenter was 4 and their brother was 6, their mother threatened that they would have to sleep outside if they failed to clean their room. Instead of cleaning, the two children decided preparing to sleep outside was easier, so they went to the backyard and dug holes to sleep in, planning to use leaves and sticks as blankets. The punchline of the story plays on the double meaning of the idiom 'digging their own graves', as their mother found them literally digging holes that looked like graves in the backyard instead of cleaning their room. The comment has received 7.2k upvotes, 4.6k replies, and 8 user awards on Reddit.

Kids dig holes in the backyard instead of cleaning their room after mom's threat

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The meme features a stock photo of a serious-looking man with medium wavy brown hair, wire-rimmed glasses, a light blue button-up shirt, and a black smartwatch. He is posed with his fist resting under his chin, appearing thoughtful and stern. To the right of the man, text displays a satirical quote attributed to 'Dr. Victor Blane, PhD': 'If I sugar coated the truth your fatass would probably try to eat it'. The joke plays on the common idiom 'sugarcoat the truth' (meaning to soften unpleasant news to make it easier to accept), twisting it to a literal interpretation: it jokes that an overweight person would try to eat anything covered in sugar, even if it is just framed bad news, justifying the speaker being blunt instead of softening their words.

A responsible Doctor

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