A list of words and phrases with double meanings from The Benny Hill Show. This is still a work in process.
A
- archaic - cake in the possessive ("We can't have archaic and eat it too.") - (from "Crown Court" in Holiday)
B
- bacteria - rear entrance to a cafeteria (from Dr. Alfred Jardine in Big Poppa)
- baloney - where you find the hem of a nice girl's skirt (Leprechaun TV)
- brothel - Chinese for brother (from Fanny Craddock in Murder on the Oregon Express)
C
- celery - Chinese for salary (from Fanny Craddock in Murder on the Oregon Express)
D
- diagram - Chinese for "diaphragm" (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
- diaphragm - Chinese for "diagram" (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
F
- flog's reggs - Chinese for frog's legs (from Fanny Craddock in Murder on the Oregon Express)
- frying - Chinese for "flying" (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
G
- gloom - a man who gets married (from Chow Mein in Down Memory Lane)
H
- harrow - "hello" in Chinese (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
- Hebrew - a male tea bag
- Henley - "Henry" in Chinese (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
- Husbands - Chinese for Osmonds (from Chow Mein in Super-Teech)
L
- lagoon - a French idiot (from Super-Teech)
M
- McAdam - the first Scotsman (from Super-Teech)
N
- nipples - a group of little children (from Chow Mein in Down Memory Lane)
P
- pathologist - a man who can find his way through the woods (Leprechaun TV)
R
- relax - a piece of dark chocolate (from Super-Teech and Jack and Jill)
- Russian napkins - Soviets (Leprechaun TV)
S
- salary - high class wages/anemic rhubarb (Leprechaun TV)
- sara - Chinese for "sailor" (from Chow Mein in A Packed Program)
U
- unabridged - a river you have to wade across (Leprechaun TV)