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The inverse trope to Have a Gay Old Time. Due to changes in vocabulary over time, something that originally was supposed to be Double Entendre-laden can often sound perfectly straightforward--or sometimes incomprehensible--to modern ears. Nunnery meant both a convent for nuns and was a euphemism for a brothel. Now you know. Examples of Get Thee to a Nunnery include:

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  • The inverse trope to Have a Gay Old Time. Due to changes in vocabulary over time, something that originally was supposed to be Double Entendre-laden can often sound perfectly straightforward--or sometimes incomprehensible--to modern ears. Nunnery meant both a convent for nuns and was a euphemism for a brothel. Now you know. Examples of Get Thee to a Nunnery include:
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  • The inverse trope to Have a Gay Old Time. Due to changes in vocabulary over time, something that originally was supposed to be Double Entendre-laden can often sound perfectly straightforward--or sometimes incomprehensible--to modern ears. Shakespeare is probably the most common exemplar of this trope, both because he wrote a long time ago and because he had a filthy streak wider than the Queen's farthingale. There was also no such thing as a "sensitive" listener who could not stand to hear a dirty joke in his day; the Queen's (and later King's) censors cared more about sedition and blasphemy than about sexual or scatological humor. This is how the awful puns in Henry V were allowed to be used while seemingly mild oaths like "Gadzooks" (God's hooks, or the nails that held Jesus to the cross) were banned. Nunnery meant both a convent for nuns and was a euphemism for a brothel. Now you know. Examples of Get Thee to a Nunnery include:
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