the one about

idiom

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

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Not the one about Jesus’ life and death, but the one about his Second Coming, featuring the world’s best foils: the red dragon, i.e., Satan, and the beast from the sea, whom theologians later interpreted as the Antichrist. Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 The release of this single volume of the report came less than a day after the judge in Florida who oversaw Mr. Trump’s other federal case, the one about the classified documents, issued a ruling allowing it to be made public. Alan Feuer, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025 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 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 13 Feb. 2025.

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