the one about

phrase

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

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The oldest, most enduring cliche about government policy is the one about how budgets are political, not fiscal, documents. Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026 There’s the one about afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026 There are some decent gross jokes, like the one about the dead deer, but nothing super standout. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2026 Perhaps without meaning to, Hite’s first three reports, and especially the one about men, became messy, overstuffed real-time chronicles of intimate life being shaped by social change. Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for the one about

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