If you want a double entendre, I’ll give you one. Photograph: Becky Loton/Stoke SentinelThe double entendre is a robust cultural fixture, having endured since at least the 10th century. I’ve always been endlessly impressed by how they squeeze all those double entendres in. For the double entendre to persist, there needs to be a sense it is using code to say the unsayable. But double entendres were always a good way of getting your sexy material on TV without upsetting anyone.” Clary remains a master of the form.

Source: The Guardian May 07, 2018 12:29 UTC