Comments on: A priest, an imam and a rabbit walk into a blood bank https://www.myenglishworld.org/priest-imam-rabbit-walk-into-blood-bank-joke-learn-english/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=priest-imam-rabbit-walk-into-blood-bank-joke-learn-english The Place to English! Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: P H https://www.myenglishworld.org/priest-imam-rabbit-walk-into-blood-bank-joke-learn-english/#comment-3998 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:30:20 +0000 https://www.myenglishworld.org/?p=21625#comment-3998 In reply to Reza K.

You are right about the two plays on words:

“Type O” is a blood type and “typo” is a small mistake in the way something has been typed or printed.

And “positive” can refer to O+ (the O positive blood type) or it can be an adjective meaning “completely sure that something is correct or true”.

So, you are almost there! You just need to connect the last dot…

Language Note

The expression join the dots or connect the dots comes from a children’s puzzle with a sequence of numbered dots. When you draw a line connecting the dots, you can see a picture.

We use this expression to talk about the ability to associate one idea with another to find the “big picture”, to make connections between people or events that seem not to be connected so that you can understand what is happening.

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