Sentence examples for thigh-slapper from inspiring English sources

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thigh-slapper

noun

A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous.

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He told a joke with the punch line "Stop casting your shadow over me!" I am not familiar with that thigh-slapper.

His book's title, What Can Chief Executives Learn From Stand-Up Comedians? is not exactly a thigh-slapper.

Real thigh-slapper.

The Sydney Morning Herald critic Marc McEvoy commented "Petarded" to be "a real thigh-slapper".

Just before this thigh-slapper Alessandrini has Sondheim (Dewan Crawley) warn.

I'll pause for a moment here while you recover from the gasping guffaws, the belly laughs that are no doubt incapacitating you right now as a consequence of that devastating thigh-slapper from Mayor Grose.

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Not for nothing are jokes also known as Schenkelklopfer, "thigh-slappers".

BUDGET politics is not known for its comic depth; but Bill Clinton's exercise of his new line-item veto powers on August 11th yielded some real thigh-slappers.

A relic of coming up in the era she did, when it might have been expected she offer thigh-slappers about a visually distinctive body?

Veronica Lee talks to this year's transatlantic thigh-slappers and sees them perform Edinburgh Festival 2014: The first line-up in a rotating cast was a strong one Rhys James is a cut above his humdrum peers.

The invigorating face-slapper.

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