the one about

idiom

: the joke about
Have you heard the one about the priest and the rabbi?

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Including the one about Britney and the knife The most outrageous and tragic claim of the book is one that Federline says his sons told him. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025 Most of the room gets the one about Pynchon’s cameo on The Simpsons. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025 Then, there’s the one about the two Asian guys who are harnessed to a chariot and made to pull it along, like horses, with bits in their mouths, while this other Asian guy, holding the reins, lashes them with a whip. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Probably the one that’s best known is the one about how Philomelus, a young, impoverished farmer and herdsman, struggled to push his plow through his fields. Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the one about

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“The one about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20one%20about. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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