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double meaning
1. “They have a double meaning, both ‘We honor your clan’, and ‘You bring honor to your clan
2. Even as recent as in Sitka, I can remember a somewhat embarrassing mix-up as a result of me not recognizing the double meaning of an English word
3. Interpretation: This is the dual card, it has a double meaning and warning
4. Gary sighed and said, “I made a remark when I was there that seemed harmless at the time…but on reflection, I suppose, could be seen as having a double meaning
5. Piled them up, used metaphors upon metaphors, exaggerated shamelessly, played with words with double meanings, and had no respect for grammar, syntax, order or punctuation
6. has a double meaning
7. Dinner was the usual loud and raucous affair typical of these two families and was filled with double entendres not all of which meant what the hidden “double meaning” appeared to mean
8. That word has a double meaning here
9. Of course there is a metaphor for this 'double meaning'
10. Of course there is a metaphor for this ‘double meaning’ of the Word of God
11. double meaning), that with it he should smite the
12. “Yes, you are,” Juan said, hoping Tam would bite at the double meaning
13. A clever double meaning
14. ” My mind was now lost in the double meanings
15. As Thomas explained his predicament to Faith, his statement that he couldn’t afford to “move” is a double meaning
16. A mystical truth is beyond the power of reasoning, what is real has double meaning, one takes ground in the conscious and the other has all attention set in the subconscious and the eye pays in two pictures
17. Avery smiled knowingly at her student, fully aware of the double meaning behind both
18. • Dialogues with double meaning
19. Was the _Christian Year_ enough for one in the way of poetry? And all those mild novels her mother read, sandwiched between the biographies of more bishops and little books of comfort with crosses on them that asked rude questions as to whether you had been greedy or dainty or had used words with a double meaning during the day--were they enough for a soul that had, quite alone, with no father giving directions, presently to face its God?
20. This system, combined with localallusions, double meanings and current slang, in
21. Cantos: note the double meaning of canto
22. The word “Christianity” has a double meaning
23. "Why, Jo?" And her mother looked up quickly, as if the words suggested a double meaning
24. Henri looked away, pretending not to notice the double meaning
25. The August 18 issue of the Economist showed a cartoon of an investor surfing shark-infested waters and about to suffer a surfer’s wipeout (note the double meaning)
26. everything the others said was very amusing and had a double meaning
27. At the word, which from some double meaning might be interpreted as the order to start, the Lieutenant raises his hand, and the flogging begins
28. “But you take it without sugar?” she said, smiling all the time, as if everything she said and everything the others said was very amusing and had a double meaning
29. "But supposing that all this is pure fancy?—a kind of mirage? Suppose I had misunderstood? Let me try and keep up my nasty part, and not commit myself, like the fool, by blind anger! Ought I to give them credit for intentions they have not? Their words are, in themselves, not very extraordinary ones— so much must be allowed; but a double meaning may lurk beneath them
