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Lyrically, the album is still littered with the silly puns and double-entendres fans have come to expect - but there's also space for reflection on a track called Through The Mists Of Time.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2020

Cherry’s signatures are all over “Why Women Kill,” from the situational set-ups to the trademark double-entendres and venomous banter to the multi-faceted and fraught relationships that women have with one another.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2019

The whole story concludes with a satirical poem that uses double-entendres to poke fun at the puritanically intolerant.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2019

On “American Top 40,” Mr. Kasem used no teenage slang, no outlandish self-promotion, no lewd double-entendres, no inside jokes; he didn’t condescend to any generation, younger or older.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2014

The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir