the one about

idiom

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

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So what about that question — the one about whether laws passed in this legislative session will be remembered 242 years from now? James Barron, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned. Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024 But a mammoth side story, or at least the storyline grabbing all sorts of attention back home, is the one about a few major superstars not getting as many chances to play. Joe Vardon, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024 Then the writers came in with the particle accelerator, and then Dwayne had the one about the slaughtering of pigs. Jen Chaney, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the one about 

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“The one about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20one%20about. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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