Be near the knuckle phrase
To be connected with sex or sexually explicit and therefore likely to be unpleasant to someone.
She forbade her son from watching this show because she found it to be too near the knuckle.
This movie is said to be suitable for children, but why is it so near the knuckle?
If someone have his or her mind in the gutter, he or she tends to have obscene thoughts or ideas.
1. The western United States as personified in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Americans expanded their territory westwards.
2. Rude, coarse or unrefined in mien.
3. Exciting, wild or lawless.
To say something obscene, vulgar or offensive
The verb "be" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase is derived from the variety of hall performances of Victorian England.
a joke, idea, or suggestion falls flat, meaning that it does not achieve the intended effect.
My attempts at jokes fell flat.