"Laid" PPP > "laid" N

[Wilson Gray]

Heard in passing on the tube, something like:

"My wife is really going to be pissed, when she finds out about _all
the laid_ that I've been getting!"

This was spoken by an actor, of course. So, who knows whether it was
ad-libbed in situ or composed at keyboardu by some writer? But, even
if it's the latter case, it's still an interesting example of ...
what? Of a "syntacto-semantic" pun used as a pswaydo-euphemism? Name
it and claim it.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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