"Joe Miller" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "After Joe Miller (actor) (1684–1738), the namesake of the 18th-century joke book Joe Miller's Jests.",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1874, William Pole, The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist",
          "text": "It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i.e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A stale jest; a worn-out joke."
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        {
          "word": "Joe"
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        {
          "ref": "1867, George Manville Fenn, Original penny readings, page 59",
          "text": "\"Don't begin them boots till I gives yer the order,\" says Jinks, as he goes out.\n\"No,\" I says, \"I shan't;\" nor I didn't neither, for I couldn't see the Joe Miller of it, and somehow or another Jinks never come inside my place again.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Joe Coyle, Athletics in Drogheda 1861-2001, page 33",
          "text": "Had the committee been composed of teetotalers, and the sports run on strict Oliver Plunkett lines, one could understand the Joe Miller of it all; but when the meeting was otherwise conducted and received the patronage of brewers and publicans — well, it was hard lines to say the least that Tommy Atkins should have been permitted to return to his quarters in Dundalk musing over what a temperance or inhospitable set must be the Drogheda wheelers.",
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      "glosses": [
        "The point of something; the fun or utility in doing a thing."
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  "wikipedia": [
    "Joe Miller (actor)"
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}

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  "etymology_text": "After Joe Miller (actor) (1684–1738), the namesake of the 18th-century joke book Joe Miller's Jests.",
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          "ref": "1874, William Pole, The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist",
          "text": "It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i.e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stale jest; a worn-out joke."
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          "ref": "1867, George Manville Fenn, Original penny readings, page 59",
          "text": "\"Don't begin them boots till I gives yer the order,\" says Jinks, as he goes out.\n\"No,\" I says, \"I shan't;\" nor I didn't neither, for I couldn't see the Joe Miller of it, and somehow or another Jinks never come inside my place again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Joe Coyle, Athletics in Drogheda 1861-2001, page 33",
          "text": "Had the committee been composed of teetotalers, and the sports run on strict Oliver Plunkett lines, one could understand the Joe Miller of it all; but when the meeting was otherwise conducted and received the patronage of brewers and publicans — well, it was hard lines to say the least that Tommy Atkins should have been permitted to return to his quarters in Dundalk musing over what a temperance or inhospitable set must be the Drogheda wheelers.",
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        }
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        "The point of something; the fun or utility in doing a thing."
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