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4th
fourth wall joke
In fiction, especially theater, film, or television, a joke that intentionally draws attention to the illusion of separation between the audience and the fiction itself. I love it when a TV show throws in a good fourth wall joke—I think it's fun being in on the humor like that.
*knee-high by the 4th of July
Fig. grown as tall as it should. (Corn seedlings are proverbially supposed to be as high as someone's knee by July 4th.) (*Typically: be ~; become ~; grow ~.) What with this drought, I don't think the crop will be knee-high by the 4th of July. It's gonna be a good year. Knee-high by the 4th of July.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Shanae | | shə-NAY | English (Modern) |
AnĐEla | | - | Croatian, Serbian |
Arif | | - | Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali |
Saffira | | - | Biblical Latin |
Vasant | | - | Indian, Marathi, Gujarati |
Madilyn | | MAD-ə-lin | English (Modern) |